VulnerabilityModified
CVE-2017-15897
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.
LOW 3.1EPSS 2.30%
Does this matter?
Lower severity and a low EPSS score (2.30%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
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.
- CVSS 3.1
- 3.1 LOWCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
- EPSS
- 2.30% probability · 82th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-665
- Affected
- nodejs/node.js
- Source
- cve-request@iojs.org
References
- https://nodejs.org/en/blog/vulnerability/december-2017-security-releases/Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
- https://nodejs.org/en/blog/vulnerability/december-2017-security-releases/Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.