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CVE-2014-5256

21
FAUCET Score

CVE-2014-5256 is a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting Node.js versions 0.8.x before 0.8.28 and 0.10.x before 0.10.30. This flaw allows remote attackers to trigger memory corruption and application crashes by submitting deeply nested JSON objects that exploit a weakness in V8 garbage collection and interrupt handling, leading to a program stack overflow. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0, indicating a medium severity with a network attack vector, low complexity, and potential for partial availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
0.8.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:nodejs:nodejs:0.8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.8.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:nodejs:nodejs:0.8.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.8.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:nodejs:nodejs:0.8.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.8.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:nodejs:nodejs:0.8.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.8.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:nodejs:nodejs:0.8.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.0MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
3.26%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
87.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0326 is in the 82nd percentile among its peer group of 23,705 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (13)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software Collections 1 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: v8314-v8-1:3.14.5.10-6.el6
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software Collections 1 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4 EUSFixed in: v8314-v8-1:3.14.5.10-6.el6
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software Collections 1 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5 EUSFixed in: v8314-v8-1:3.14.5.10-6.el6
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software Collections 1 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: v8314-v8-1:3.14.5.10-6.el7
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redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: CloudForms Management Engine 5Fixed in: ruby193-v8
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: OpenShift Enterprise 1Fixed in: ruby193-v8
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 5 (Icehouse)Fixed in: v8
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 2Fixed in: v8
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenStack Platform 4Fixed in: ruby193-v8
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenStack Platform 4Fixed in: v8
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Satellite 6Fixed in: v8
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Subscription Asset ManagerFixed in: ruby193-v8
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Subscription Asset ManagerFixed in: v8

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2014-5256Moderate

V8: Memory Corruption and Stack Overflow

Jul 31, 2014

References

advisories.mageia.org / MGASA-2014-0516.html
blog.nodejs.org / 2014/07/31/v8-memory-corruption-stack-overflow
PatchVendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/61260
github.com / joyent/node/commit/530af9cb8e700e7596b3ec812bad123c9fa06356
Exploit
www-01.ibm.com / support/docview.wss
mandriva.com / security/advisories