CVE-2025-59465 (GCVE-0-2025-59465)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-01-20 20:41 – Updated: 2026-01-20 20:41
VLAI?
Summary
A malformed `HTTP/2 HEADERS` frame with oversized, invalid `HPACK` data can cause Node.js to crash by triggering an unhandled `TLSSocket` error `ECONNRESET`. Instead of safely closing the connection, the process crashes, enabling a remote denial of service. This primarily affects applications that do not attach explicit error handlers to secure sockets, for example:
```
server.on('secureConnection', socket => {
socket.on('error', err => {
console.log(err)
})
})
```
Severity ?
7.5 (High)
Assigner
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| nodejs | node |
Affected:
20.19.6 , ≤ 20.19.6
(semver)
Affected: 22.21.1 , ≤ 22.21.1 (semver) Affected: 24.12.0 , ≤ 24.12.0 (semver) Affected: 25.2.1 , ≤ 25.2.1 (semver) Affected: 4.0 , < 4.* (semver) Affected: 5.0 , < 5.* (semver) Affected: 6.0 , < 6.* (semver) Affected: 7.0 , < 7.* (semver) Affected: 8.0 , < 8.* (semver) Affected: 9.0 , < 9.* (semver) Affected: 10.0 , < 10.* (semver) Affected: 11.0 , < 11.* (semver) Affected: 12.0 , < 12.* (semver) Affected: 13.0 , < 13.* (semver) Affected: 14.0 , < 14.* (semver) Affected: 15.0 , < 15.* (semver) Affected: 16.0 , < 16.* (semver) Affected: 17.0 , < 17.* (semver) Affected: 18.0 , < 18.* (semver) |
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Sightings
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|---|
Nomenclature
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