FKIE_CVE-2017-16118

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2018-06-07 02:29 - Updated: 2024-11-21 03:15
Severity ?
7.5 (High) - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Summary
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.
References
support@hackerone.comhttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104427Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
support@hackerone.comhttps://nodesecurity.io/advisories/527Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104427Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/527Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
forwarded_project forwarded *
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  "id": "CVE-2017-16118",
  "lastModified": "2024-11-21T03:15:51.410",
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