High severity · published Jun 7, 2018
CVE-2017-16119
Fresh is a module used by the Express.js framework for HTTP response freshness testing
7.5
CVSS
1.6%
EPSS
No
On KEV
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)1.6% · higher than 75% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
FN
fresh node module · HackerOne
< 0.5.2 · source: vendor
FR
Fresh · Fresh Project
before 0.5.2 · source: NVD