### [CVE-2017-16137](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-16137)
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### Description

The debug module is vulnerable to regular expression denial of service when untrusted user input is passed into the o formatter. It takes around 50k characters to block for 2 seconds making this a low severity issue.

### POC

#### Reference
No PoCs from references.

#### Github
- https://github.com/ARPSyndicate/cvemon
- https://github.com/HotDB-Community/HotDB-Engine
- https://github.com/engn33r/awesome-redos-security
- https://github.com/ossf-cve-benchmark/CVE-2017-16137