CVE-2013-4450

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 37.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2013-10-21 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

The HTTP server in Node.js 0.10.x before 0.10.21 and 0.8.x before 0.8.26 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory and CPU consumption) by sending a large number of pipelined requests without reading the response.

Affected products

nodejs: 0.8.0, 0.8.1, 0.8.2, 0.8.3, 0.8.4, 0.8.5 (+41)

References

http://blog.nodejs.org/2013/10/18/node-v0-10-21-stable/
http://blog.nodejs.org/2013/10/18/node-v0-8-26-maintenance/
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-12/msg00051.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1842.html
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/10/20/1
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/63229
https://github.com/joyent/node/issues/6214
https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/pull/2548
https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21topic/nodejs/NEbweYB0ei0
https://kb.juniper.net/JSA10783
http://blog.nodejs.org/2013/10/18/node-v0-10-21-stable/
http://blog.nodejs.org/2013/10/18/node-v0-8-26-maintenance/

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