VulnerabilityModified
CVE-2017-16118
It is vulnerable to a regular expression denial of service when it's passed specially crafted input to parse.
HIGH 7.5EPSS 1.92%
Does this matter?
High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (1.92%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.
Description
The forwarded module is used by the Express.js framework to handle the X-Forwarded-For header. It is vulnerable to a regular expression denial of service when it's passed specially crafted input to parse. This causes the event loop to be blocked causing a denial of service condition.
- 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
- 1.92% probability · 79th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-400
- Affected
- forwarded project/forwarded
- Source
- support@hackerone.com
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104427Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/527Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104427Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/527Third Party Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.