CVEvulnerability

CVE-2017-16136

7.5 HIGH Published 2018-06-07 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
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

method-override is a module used by the Express.js framework to let you use HTTP verbs such as PUT or DELETE in places where the client doesn't support it. method-override is vulnerable to a regular expression denial of service vulnerability when specially crafted input is passed in to be parsed via the X-HTTP-Method-Override header.

Affected configurations

• expressjs method-override (< 2.3.10)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption weakness

References