CVE-2015-9242

Certain input strings when passed to new Date() or Date.parse() in ecstatic node module before 1.4.0 will cause v8 to raise an exception. This leads to a crash and denial of service in ecstatic when this input is passed into the server via the If-Modified-Since header.

Score

CVSS 3.0 7.5 High

Status

Modified - support@hackerone.com

Published

2018-05-29

Last modified

2024-09-17

Weaknesses

CWE-20, CWE-400

Affected products

• Ecstatic (Ecstatic Project)
• Ecstatic Node Module (Hackerone)

References

• https://bugs.chromium.org/p/v8/issues/detail?id=4640
• https://github.com/jfhbrook/node-ecstatic/pull/179
• https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/64