CVE-2017-16118

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Summary

CVECVE-2017-16118
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2018-06-07 02:29:00 UTC
Updated2019-10-09 23:24:00 UTC
DescriptionThe 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-400

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Forwarded Project Forwarded All All All All
Application Forwarded Project Forwarded All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Node.js 'Forwarded' Module CVE-2017-16118 Denial of Service Vulnerability BID www.securityfocus.com Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
Overview MISC nodesecurity.io Third Party Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 984003 Nodejs (npm) Security Update for forwarded (GHSA-mpcf-4gmh-23w8)
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