Kurz gesagt
- CVE-2017-16119 ist eine Schwachstelle (HOCH (CVSS 7.5)) in fresh (fresh project), fresh.
- Wahrscheinlichkeit einer Ausnutzung in den nächsten 30 Tagen (EPSS): 1.6%, höher als bei 75.6% aller Schwachstellen.
- Abhilfe: auf 0.5.2 oder neuer aktualisieren.
| Package | Affected versions | Patched versions |
|---|
| fresh | < 0.5.2
| 0.5.2
|
| fresh npm | < 0.5.2
| 0.5.2
|
Description
Affected versions of fresh are vulnerable to regular expression denial of service when parsing specially crafted user input.
Recommendation
Update to version 0.5.2 or later.
NVD description
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.
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