CVEvulnerability
CVE-2020-8251
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2020-09-18
- 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
Description
Node.js < 14.11.0 is vulnerable to HTTP denial of service (DoS) attacks based on delayed requests submission which can make the server unable to accept new connections.
Affected configurations
• nodejs node.js (>= 14.0.0 < 14.11.0)
• fedoraproject fedora 33
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption weakness
References
- https://hackerone.com/reports/868834 Permissions Required
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/4OOYAMJVLLCLXDTHW3V5UXNULZBBK4O6/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://nodejs.org/en/blog/vulnerability/september-2020-security-releases/ Vendor Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202101-07 Third Party Advisory
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20201009-0004/ Third Party Advisory
- https://hackerone.com/reports/868834 Permissions Required
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/4OOYAMJVLLCLXDTHW3V5UXNULZBBK4O6/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://nodejs.org/en/blog/vulnerability/september-2020-security-releases/ Vendor Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202101-07 Third Party Advisory
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20201009-0004/ Third Party Advisory