VulnerabilityModified
CVE-2017-16119
It is vulnerable to a regular expression denial of service when it is passed specially crafted input to parse.
HIGH 7.5EPSS 1.58%
Does this matter?
High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (1.58%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.
Description
Fresh is a module used by the Express.js framework for HTTP response freshness testing. It is vulnerable to a regular expression denial of service when it is 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
- 1.58% probability · 74th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-400
- Affected
- fresh project/fresh
- Source
- support@hackerone.com
References
- https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/526Third Party Advisory
- https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/526Third Party Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.