VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2017-16136

CVSS score7.5 HIGH
EPSS probability1.21%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2018-06-07
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Description

method-override is a module used by the Express.js framework to let you use HTTP verbs such as PUT or DELETE in places where the client doesn't support it. method-override is vulnerable to a regular expression denial of service vulnerability when specially crafted input is passed in to be parsed via the X-HTTP-Method-Override header.

Weakness classification

  • CWE-400: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

Primary references