CVE-2017-16119

State
Published
Severity
7.5 High
Published
Jun 7, 2018
Updated
Oct 8, 2026
Reserved
Oct 29, 2017

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Description

Fresh is a module used by the Express.js framework for HTTP response freshness testing. It is vulnerable to a regular expression denial of service when it is passed specially crafted input to parse. This causes the event loop to be blocked causing a denial of service condition.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.17.5 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HCISA-ADP

Weaknesses

  • CWE-400 Denial of Service (CWE-400)

Affected Products

ProductVersions
fresh node moduleHackerOne
  • < 0.5.2Affected

References

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