CVE-2016-10707 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

jQuery 3.0.0-rc.1 is vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS) due to removing a logic that lowercased attribute names. Any attribute getter using a mixed-cased name for boolean attributes goes into an infinite recursion, exceeding the stack call limit.

Published: 2018-01-18

Score: 7.5 High

EPSS: 2.9% Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

n/a

n/a

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:jquery:jquery:3.0.0:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
Github GHSA	GHSA-mhpp-875w-9cpv	Denial of Service in jquery

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.02886.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
https://github.com/jquery/jquery/issues/3133
https://github.com/jquery/jquery/pull/3134
https://snyk.io/vuln/npm:jquery:20160529

History

Tue, 15 Jul 2025 13:45:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics	epss `{'score': 0.00533}`	epss `{'score': 0.00892}`

Subscriptions

Jquery Jquery

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2018-01-18T23:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-06T03:30:20.218Z

Reserved: 2018-01-18T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2016-10707

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2018-01-18T23:29:00.400

Modified: 2026-06-17T00:40:12.127

Link: CVE-2016-10707

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

Weaknesses

CWE-674
Uncontrolled Recursion

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