7.5high
CVE-2017-16119
Regular Expression Denial of Service in fresh
Also known as GHSA-9qj9-36jm-prpv
Published 8 y ago · modified 30 d ago · JSON
CVSS
7.5
v3.1 · CNA
CISA KEV
No
not known exploited
EPSS
1.6%
percentile 76%
Public exploits
0
none known
Summary
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.
CISA SSVC assessment
- Exploitation
- none
- Automatable
- no
- Technical impact
- partial
- Assessed
- 30 d ago
Exploit prediction (EPSS)
1.57% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 76% of all scored CVEs.
CVSS scores
| Assigned by | Version | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| CISA ADP | 3.1 | 7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
| CNA | 3.1 | 7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
| NVD | 3.0 | 7.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
| NVD | 2.0 | 5.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |
| GitHub | 3.0 | 7.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
Affected packages
| Ecosystem | Package | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| npm | fresh | <0.5.2 | 0.5.2 |
Affected products
- HackerOne fresh node module
Classification
- Weakness
- CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
References
- nodesecurity.io /advisories/526 · x_refsource_MISC, x_transferred
- nvd.nist.gov /vuln/detail/CVE-2017-16119 · advisory
- github.com /advisories/GHSA-9qj9-36jm-prpv · advisory
- npmjs.com /advisories/526 · web
Sources
- CVE List: CVE-2017-16119
- GitHub Advisory: GHSA-9qj9-36jm-prpv
- NVD: CVE-2017-16119
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