CVE-2019-5739

State: Published
Severity: Not scored
Published: Mar 28, 2019
Updated: Aug 4, 2024
Reserved: Jan 9, 2019

Description

Keep-alive HTTP and HTTPS connections can remain open and inactive for up to 2 minutes in Node.js 6.16.0 and earlier. Node.js 8.0.0 introduced a dedicated server.keepAliveTimeout which defaults to 5 seconds. The behavior in Node.js 6.16.0 and earlier is a potential Denial of Service (DoS) attack vector. Node.js 6.17.0 introduces server.keepAliveTimeout and the 5-second default.

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption / Denial of Service

Affected Products

Product	Versions
Node.jsNode.js	All versions prior to 6.17.0Affected

References

https://nodejs.org/en/blog/vulnerability/february-2019-security-releases/
openSUSE-SU-2019:1076vendor-advisory
openSUSE-SU-2019:1173vendor-advisory
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190502-0008/
GLSA-202003-48vendor-advisory

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