CVE-2018-12121

Summary

CVECVE-2018-12121
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2018-11-28 17:29:00 UTC
Updated2022-09-06 17:54:00 UTC
DescriptionNode.js: All versions prior to Node.js 6.15.0, 8.14.0, 10.14.0 and 11.3.0: Denial of Service with large HTTP headers: By using a combination of many requests with maximum sized headers (almost 80 KB per connection), and carefully timed completion of the headers, it is possible to cause the HTTP server to abort from heap allocation failure. Attack potential is mitigated by the use of a load balancer or other proxy layer.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-400

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Joyent Node.js All All All All
Application Nodejs Node.js All All All All
Application Nodejs Node.js All All All All
Application Nodejs Node.js All All All All
Application Nodejs Node.js All All All All
Application Nodejs Node.js All All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux 8.0 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux Desktop 7.0 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux Eus 8.1 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux Eus 8.2 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux Eus 8.4 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux Eus 8.6 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux Server 7.0 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux Server Aus 8.2 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux Server Aus 8.4 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux Server Aus 8.6 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux Server Tus 8.2 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux Server Tus 8.4 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux Server Tus 8.6 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux Workstation 7.0 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Malformed Request BID www.securityfocus.com Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
November 2018 Security Releases | Node.js CONFIRM nodejs.org Patch, Vendor Advisory
Red Hat Customer Portal REDHAT access.redhat.com
Node.js: Multiple vulnerabilities (GLSA 202003-48) — Gentoo security GENTOO security.gentoo.org
Red Hat Customer Portal REDHAT access.redhat.com
Red Hat Customer Portal REDHAT access.redhat.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 296075 Oracle Solaris 11.4 Support Repository Update (SRU) 21.69.0 Missing (CPUAPR2020)
  • 377509 Alibaba Cloud Linux Security Update for http-parser (ALINUX2-SA-2019:0063)
  • 378150 Virtuozzo Linux Security Update for http-parser (VZLSA-2019:2258)
  • 500432 Alpine Linux Security Update for nodejs
  • 501095 Alpine Linux Security Update for nodejs-current
  • 504195 Alpine Linux Security Update for nodejs
  • 900064 CBL-Mariner Linux Security Update for nodejs 8.11.4
  • 903050 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for nodejs (4297)
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