CVE-2017-16119

HIGH

fresh < 0.5.2 - Denial of Service via Regular Expression

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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.

References (1)

Core 1
Core References
Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/526

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5
EPSS 0.0158
EPSS Percentile 72.5%
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-400
Status published
Products (2)
fresh_project/fresh < 0.5.2
npm/fresh 0 - 0.5.2npm
Published Jun 07, 2018
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026