CVE-2017-16119

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.

• CWE-400
• CWE-400

• https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/526Third Party Advisory
• https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/526Third Party Advisory

Published

Jun 7, 2018

Last Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Status

Modified

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