{"id":"CVE-2017-16026","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2017-16026","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T19:05:23.123Z","title":"Request is an http client.","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.","published":"2018-06-04T19:29:02.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T01:08:40.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"support@hackerone.com","cvss":{"version":"3.0","score":5.9,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N"},"cwe":["CWE-201","CWE-20"],"affected":["request project/request"],"epss":{"score":0.02563,"percentile":0.85028,"date":"2026-10-27","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (2.56%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://github.com/request/request/issues/1904","tags":["Exploit","Issue Tracking","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"support@hackerone.com"},{"url":"https://github.com/request/request/pull/2018","tags":["Exploit","Issue Tracking","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"support@hackerone.com"},{"url":"https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/309","tags":["Exploit","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"support@hackerone.com"},{"url":"https://github.com/request/request/issues/1904","tags":["Exploit","Issue Tracking","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://github.com/request/request/pull/2018","tags":["Exploit","Issue Tracking","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/309","tags":["Exploit","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-16026","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}