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UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2015-9242

This leads to a crash and denial of service in ecstatic when this input is passed into the server via the If-Modified-Since header.

HIGH 7.5EPSS 2.09%

Does this matter?

High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (2.09%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.

Description

Certain input strings when passed to new Date() or Date.parse() in ecstatic node module before 1.4.0 will cause v8 to raise an exception. This leads to a crash and denial of service in ecstatic when this input is passed into the server via the If-Modified-Since header.

CVSS 3.0
7.5 HIGHCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS
2.09% probability · 81th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-400, CWE-20
Affected
ecstatic project/ecstatic
Source
support@hackerone.com

References

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.