CVE-2017-16118
HIGH 7.5EPSS 1.9%
The forwarded module is used by the Express.js framework to handle the X-Forwarded-For header. It is vulnerable to a regular expression denial of service when it's passed specially crafted input to parse. This causes the event loop to be blocked causing a denial of service condition.
- Affected
- HackerOne · forwarded node module
- CVSS v3.0 NVD
- 7.5 HIGH
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H - CVSS v2.0 NVD
- 5.0 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P - EPSS
- 1.85% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 79th percentile
- Published
- 2018-06-07
- Updated
- 2024-09-17
Proof-of-concept exploits (1)
- ossf-cve-benchmark/CVE-2017-161180★ · 2020-11-30
Security advisories
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104427
- https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/527
- advisories/GHSA-mpcf-4gmh-23w8