CVE-2015-9242

HIGH

ecstatic < 1.4.0 - Denial of Service via If-Modified-Since Header

Title source: llm

Description

Certain input strings when passed to new Date() or Date.parse() in ecstatic node module before 1.4.0 will cause v8 to raise an exception. This leads to a crash and denial of service in ecstatic when this input is passed into the server via the If-Modified-Since header.

References (3)

Core 3

Core References

Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc

https://github.com/jfhbrook/node-ecstatic/pull/179

Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/v8/issues/detail?id=4640

Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc

https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/64

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5

EPSS 0.0209

EPSS Percentile 79.3%

Attack Vector NETWORK

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE

CWE-20 CWE-400

Status published

Products (2)

ecstatic_project/ecstatic < 1.4.0

npm/ecstatic 0 - 1.4.0npm

Published May 29, 2018

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026