GitHub Advisoryadvisory · npm

GHSA-mpcf-4gmh-23w8 Regular Expression Denial of Service in forwarded

HIGH Published 2018-07-24 Modified 2023-09-11 Official page ↗
Aliases
CVE-2017-16118
Ecosystem
npm
Packages
forwarded
Severity
High
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-400
Reviewed
2020-06-16

Affected packages

• npm forwarded: < 0.1.2 → fixed in 0.1.2

Description

Affected versions of `forwarded` are vulnerable to regular expression denial of service when parsing specially crafted user input. Recommendation Update to version 0.1.2 or later

Related

Alias · CVE (1)

  • CVE-2017-16118 The forwarded module is used by the Express.js framework to handle the X-Forwarded-For header. vulnerability

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption weakness

References