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CVE-2017-16118
Published: Jun 7, 2018
Modified: Sep 17, 2024
PUBLISHED
Description
The forwarded module is used by the Express.js framework to handle the X-Forwarded-For header. It is vulnerable to a regular expression denial of service when it's passed specially crafted input to parse. This causes the event loop to be blocked causing a denial of service condition.
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
HackerOne | forwarded node module | affected < 0.1.2 |
Weaknesses (CWE)
References
https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/527
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104427
vdb-entry
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