CVE-2025-55152
MEDIUMoak < 17.1.6 - Denial of Service via Inefficient Regular Expression in Header Parsing
Title source: llmDescription
oak is a middleware framework for Deno's native HTTP server, Deno Deploy, Node.js 16.5 and later, Cloudflare Workers and Bun. In versions 17.1.5 and below, it's possible to significantly slow down an oak server with specially crafted values of the x-forwarded-proto or x-forwarded-for headers.
References (2)
Core 2
Core References
Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://github.com/oakserver/oak/security/advisories/GHSA-r3v7-pc4g-7xp9
Patch x_refsource_misc
https://github.com/oakserver/oak/commit/b60e60330ef227707c4dc13ef0ea36192d894f44
Scores
CVSS v3
5.3
EPSS
0.0036
EPSS Percentile
27.8%
Attack Vector
NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
CISA SSVC
Vulnrichment
Exploitation
poc
Automatable
yes
Technical Impact
partial
Details
CWE
CWE-1333
CWE-400
Status
published
Products (2)
oakserver/oak
0npm
oakserver/oak
< 17.1.6
Published
Aug 09, 2025
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026