VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2017-15897

CVSS score3.1 LOW
EPSS probability2.32%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2017-12-11
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Description

Node.js had a bug in versions 8.X and 9.X which caused buffers to not be initialized when the encoding for the fill value did not match the encoding specified. For example, 'Buffer.alloc(0x100, "This is not correctly encoded", "hex");' The buffer implementation was updated such that the buffer will be initialized to all zeros in these cases.

Weakness classification

  • CWE-665: Improper Initialization

Primary references