CVE-2017-16118
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Jun 7, 2018
- Updated
- Sep 17, 2024
- Reserved
- Oct 29, 2017
Description
The forwarded module is used by the Express.js framework to handle the X-Forwarded-For header. It is vulnerable to a regular expression denial of service when it's passed specially crafted input to parse. This causes the event loop to be blocked causing a denial of service condition.
Scores
The record has no CVSS score.
Weaknesses
- CWE-400 Denial of Service (CWE-400)
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
forwarded node moduleHackerOne |
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References
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