{"id":"CVE-2018-7161","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2018-7161","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T21:57:56.770Z","title":"All versions of Node.js 8.x, 9.x, and 10.x are vulnerable and the severity is HIGH.","description":"All versions of Node.js 8.x, 9.x, and 10.x are vulnerable and the severity is HIGH. An attacker can cause a denial of service (DoS) by causing a node server providing an http2 server to crash. This can be accomplished by interacting with the http2 server in a manner that triggers a cleanup bug where objects are used in native code after they are no longer available. This has been addressed by updating the http2 implementation.","published":"2018-06-13T16:29:02.000Z","lastModified":"2026-10-08T22:16:48.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cve-request@iojs.org","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":7.5,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-20"],"affected":["nodejs/node.js"],"epss":{"score":0.07485,"percentile":0.94447,"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":"high","text":"High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (7.49%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106363","tags":["Third Party Advisory","VDB Entry"],"source":"cve-request@iojs.org"},{"url":"https://nodejs.org/en/blog/vulnerability/june-2018-security-releases/","tags":["Patch","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"cve-request@iojs.org"},{"url":"https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202003-48","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve-request@iojs.org"},{"url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106363","tags":["Third Party Advisory","VDB Entry"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://nodejs.org/en/blog/vulnerability/june-2018-security-releases/","tags":["Patch","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202003-48","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-7161","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."}