CVE-2015-9242

Summary

CVECVE-2015-9242
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2018-05-29 20:29:00 UTC
Updated2019-10-09 23:15:00 UTC
DescriptionCertain input strings when passed to new Date() or Date.parse() in ecstatic node module before 1.4.0 will cause v8 to raise an exception. This leads to a crash and denial of service in ecstatic when this input is passed into the server via the If-Modified-Since header.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-20

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Ecstatic Project Ecstatic All All All All
Application Ecstatic Project Ecstatic All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Illegal access crash from if-modified-since header by substack · Pull Request #179 · jfhbrook/node-ecstatic · GitHub MISC github.com Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
Overview MISC nodesecurity.io Third Party Advisory
Issue 4640 - v8 - illegal access exception from Date strings - Monorail MISC bugs.chromium.org Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 984057 Nodejs (npm) Security Update for ecstatic (GHSA-vwjc-q9px-r9vq)

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