VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2017-16119

CVSS score7.5 HIGH
EPSS probability1.56%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2018-06-07
Last modified2026-10-08
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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.

Weakness classification

  • CWE-400: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

Primary references