VulnerabilityModified
CVE-2017-16026
Request is an http client.
MEDIUM 5.9EPSS 2.56%
Does this matter?
Lower severity and a low EPSS score (2.56%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
Description
Request is an http client. If a request is made using ```multipart```, and the body type is a ```number```, then the specified number of non-zero memory is passed in the body. This affects Request >=2.2.6 <2.47.0 || >2.51.0 <=2.67.0.
- CVSS 3.0
- 5.9 MEDIUMCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- EPSS
- 2.56% probability · 85th percentile
- Public exploits
- None in Exploit-DB
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-201, CWE-20
- Affected
- request project/request
- Source
- support@hackerone.com
EPSS 2.6% since 27 October 2026; no change recorded yet. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.
References
- https://github.com/request/request/issues/1904Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/request/request/pull/2018Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/309Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/request/request/issues/1904Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/request/request/pull/2018Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/309Exploit, Third Party Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.