CVE-2017-16119 Regular Expression Denial of Service in fresh
HighCVSS 7.5
EPSS 1.6%
- Published
- Updated
- Exploit status
- No public exploit known
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 products
| Product | Affected versions | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| npm fresh(npm) | < 0.5.2 | 0.5.2 |
| debian/node-fresh(Debian:12) | < 0.2.0-2 | 0.2.0-2 |
| debian/node-fresh(Debian:13) | < 0.2.0-2 | 0.2.0-2 |
| debian/node-fresh(Debian:14) | < 0.2.0-2 | 0.2.0-2 |
| HackerOne fresh node module | = < 0.5.2 | No fix listed |
| fresh project fresh | < 0.5.2 | 0.5.2 |
References
- nvd.nist.gov third-party-advisory
- github.com
- www.npmjs.com
- Debian Security Tracker CVE-2017-16119 vendor-advisory
- nodesecurity.io third-party-advisory
- bugs.debian.org issue-tracking