CVEvulnerability
CVE-2019-5739
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2019-03-28
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/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, CWE-770
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.
Affected configurations
• nodejs node.js (<= 6.16.0)
• opensuse leap 42.3
Related
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-03/msg00041.html Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00046.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://nodejs.org/en/blog/vulnerability/february-2019-security-releases/ Vendor Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202003-48 Third Party Advisory
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190502-0008/ Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-03/msg00041.html Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00046.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://nodejs.org/en/blog/vulnerability/february-2019-security-releases/ Vendor Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202003-48 Third Party Advisory
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190502-0008/ Third Party Advisory