CVEvulnerability

CVE-2017-16119

7.5 HIGH Published 2018-06-07 Modified 2026-10-08 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2018-06-07
Last modified
2026-10-08
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 (134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)
7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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

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.

Affected configurations

• fresh project fresh (< 0.5.2)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption weakness

References