CVE-2017-16119

Severity Score

7.5

*CVSS v3

Exploit Likelihood

*EPSS

Affected Versions

*CPE

Public Exploits

*Multiple Sources

Exploited in Wild

*KEV

Decision

*SSVC

Descriptions

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.

Fresh es un módulo empleado por el framework Express.js para las pruebas de "frescura" de las respuestas HTTP. Es vulnerable a una denegación de servicio (DoS) por expresiones regulares cuando se le pasan entradas especialmente manipuladas para su análisis. Esto provoca que el bucle de eventos se bloquee, provocando una condición de denegación de servicio (DoS).

*Credits: N/A

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

None

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

None

Availability

High

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Authentication

None

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

None

Availability

Partial

* Common Vulnerability Scoring System

SSVC

Decision:-

Exploitation

Automatable

Tech. Impact

* Organization's Worst-case Scenario

Timeline

2017-09-14 First Exploit
2017-10-29 CVE Reserved
2018-06-07 CVE Published
2024-03-05 EPSS Updated
2024-09-17 CVE Updated
---------- Exploited in Wild
---------- KEV Due Date

CWE

CWE-400: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

CAPEC

References (2)

URL	Tag	Source
https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/526	Third Party Advisory

URL	Date	SRC
https://github.com/ossf-cve-benchmark/CVE-2017-16119	2017-09-14

URL	Date	SRC

URL	Date	SRC

Affected Vendors, Products, and Versions

Vendor		Product				Version		Other		Status
Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status	<-- -->	Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status
Fresh Project Search vendor "Fresh Project"		Fresh Search vendor "Fresh Project" for product "Fresh"				< 0.5.2 Search vendor "Fresh Project" for product "Fresh" and version " < 0.5.2"		node.js		Affected