CVE-2017-16119
Regular Expression Denial of Service in fresh
7.5
HIGH
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 0.33%
Description
Fresh is a module used by the Express.js framework for HTTP response freshness testing. It is vulnerable to a regular expression denial of service when it is passed specially crafted input to parse. This causes the event loop to be blocked causing a denial of service condition.
How to fix CVE-2017-16119
To remediate CVE-2017-16119, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- —upgrade to 0.2.0-2 or later
- —upgrade to 0.5.2 or later
Is CVE-2017-16119 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 0.3%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (2)
- from 0, < 0.2.0-2
- from 0, < 0.5.2
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH7.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |