CVE-2019-5739

HIGH

Node.js < 6.16.0 - Denial of Service via Keep-Alive Timeout

Title source: llm

Description

Keep-alive HTTP and HTTPS connections can remain open and inactive for up to 2 minutes in Node.js 6.16.0 and earlier. Node.js 8.0.0 introduced a dedicated server.keepAliveTimeout which defaults to 5 seconds. The behavior in Node.js 6.16.0 and earlier is a potential Denial of Service (DoS) attack vector. Node.js 6.17.0 introduces server.keepAliveTimeout and the 5-second default.

References (5)

Core 5

Core References

Vendor Advisory x_refsource_misc

https://nodejs.org/en/blog/vulnerability/february-2019-security-releases/

Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_suse

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-03/msg00041.html

Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_suse

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00046.html

Third Party Advisory x_refsource_confirm

https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190502-0008/

Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_gentoo

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202003-48

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5

EPSS 0.0031

EPSS Percentile 54.5%

Attack Vector NETWORK

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE

CWE-770 CWE-400

Status published

Products (2)

nodejs/node.js < 6.16.0

opensuse/leap 42.3

Published Mar 28, 2019

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026