CVE-2016-10539

HIGH

negotiator < 0.6.0 - Regular Expression Denial of Service via Accept-Language Header

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

negotiator is an HTTP content negotiator for Node.js and is used by many modules and frameworks including Express and Koa. The header for "Accept-Language", when parsed by negotiator 0.6.0 and earlier is vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service via a specially crafted string.

References (1)

Core 1
Core References
Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/106

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5
EPSS 0.0140
EPSS Percentile 69.1%
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)
negotiator_project/negotiator < 0.6.0
npm/negotiator 0 - 0.6.1npm
Published May 31, 2018
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026