GSD-2017-16118

Vulnerability from gsd - Updated: 2023-12-13 01:21
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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.
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CVE-2017-16118
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