CVE-2017-16119

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.

Score

CVSS 3.1 7.5 High

Status

Modified - support@hackerone.com

Published

2018-06-07

Last modified

2026-10-08

Weaknesses

CWE-400

Affected products

• Fresh (Fresh Project)
• Fresh Node Module (Hackerone)

References

• https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/526