CVEvulnerability
CVE-2017-16118
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2018-06-07
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-400
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.
Affected configurations
• forwarded project forwarded (< 0.1.2)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption weakness
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104427 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/527 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104427 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/527 Third Party Advisory