Resource exhaustion in Fresh Project
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.
Vulnerability class: DoS (Denial of Service)
EPSS: 0.016 (73.0th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
CVSS v3 metric
CVSS v3 base score 7.5 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.
Affected products
- Fresh_project Fresh
- Hackerone Fresh Node Module — versions < 0.5.2
Weakness classification (CWE)
Public proof-of-concept exploits
References
- support@hackerone.com (Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)
Frequently asked questions
- What is CVE-2017-16119?
- CVE-2017-16119 is a high-severity vulnerability in Fresh Project, classified under Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2018-06-07.
- How severe is CVE-2017-16119?
- High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.
- Is CVE-2017-16119 known to be exploited?
- 3 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.