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CVE-2017-16119GHSA-9QJ9-36JM-PRPV

Fresh is a module used by the Express.js framework for HTTP response freshness testing.

Published
Last modified
published
Not listed in CISA KEV
Fix
Fixed in 0.5.2
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub
  • Exploitation: none
  • Automatable: no
  • Technical impact: partial

Summary

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.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. CISA SSVC assessment

    Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial

  3. Record last updated

Affected versions

  • HackerOne fresh node module

    fixed in 0.5.2

  • freshnpm

    fixed in 0.5.2

References 1

nodesecurity.io