CVE-2025-59465
- State
- Published
- Severity
- 7.5 High
- Published
- Jan 20, 2026
- Updated
- Jul 15, 2026
- Reserved
- Sep 16, 2025
Description
A malformed `HTTP/2 HEADERS` frame with oversized, invalid `HPACK` data can cause Node.js to crash by triggering an unhandled `TLSSocket` error `ECONNRESET`. Instead of safely closing the connection, the process crashes, enabling a remote denial of service. This primarily affects applications that do not attach explicit error handlers to secure sockets, for example: ``` server.on('secureConnection', socket => { socket.on('error', err => { console.log(err) }) }) ```
Scores
| CVSS | Score | Vector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.0 | 7.5 High | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H | hackerone |
| 3.1 | 7.5 High | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H | redhat-SADP |
Weaknesses
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
nodenodejs |
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References
- https://nodejs.org/en/blog/vulnerability/december-2025-security-releases
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-59465vdb-entry
- RHBZ#2431349issue-tracking
- https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2025/cve-2025-59465.json
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:2899vendor-advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:1843vendor-advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:1842vendor-advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:2422vendor-advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:2421vendor-advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:2420vendor-advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:2768vendor-advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:2767vendor-advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:2864vendor-advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:2783vendor-advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:2782vendor-advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:2781vendor-advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:7386vendor-advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:7387vendor-advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:6402vendor-advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:6431vendor-advisory
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