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CVE-2017-16119
Published: Jun 7, 2018
Modified: Sep 17, 2024
PUBLISHED
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.
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
HackerOne | fresh node module | affected < 0.5.2 |
Weaknesses (CWE)
References
https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/526
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