CVE-2017-16119 is a Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) vulnerability affecting the 'fresh' module used by the Express.js framework. An attacker can trigger a denial of service by providing specially crafted input, blocking the event loop. With a CVSS score of 7.5 (High), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable with low attack complexity, leading to a high impact on availability. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 0.5.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:fresh_project:fresh:*:*:*:*:*:node.js:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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