What is CVE-2017-15010?

CVE-2017-15010 is a high-severity vulnerability in Salesforce Tough-Cookie, classified under Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2017-10-04.

How severe is CVE-2017-15010?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.

Is CVE-2017-15010 known to be exploited?

3 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Resource exhaustion in Salesforce Tough-Cookie

CVE-2017-15010

A ReDoS (regular expression denial of service) flaw was found in the tough-cookie module before 2.3.3 for Node.js. An attacker that is able to make an HTTP request using a specially crafted cookie may cause the application to consume an excessive amount of CPU.

Vulnerability class: DoS (Denial of Service)

Published 2017-10-04 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 7.5 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.033 (88.0th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 88th percentile — 88.0% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.033 · newest: 0.033 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Salesforce Tough-Cookie

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-400 — Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

Public proof-of-concept exploits

References

access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2913 (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
nodesecurity.io/advisories/525 (Third Party Advisory)
www.securityfocus.com/bid/101185 (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)
access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1264 (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2912 (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1263 (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
github.com/salesforce/tough-cookie/issues/92 (Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory)
snyk.io/vuln/npm:tough-cookie:20170905 (Patch, Third Party Advisory)
lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/… (vendor-advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2017-15010?: CVE-2017-15010 is a high-severity vulnerability in Salesforce Tough-Cookie, classified under Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2017-10-04.
How severe is CVE-2017-15010?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.
Is CVE-2017-15010 known to be exploited?: 3 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.