CVE-2015-8027

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 5.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2016-01-02 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-17

Description

Node.js 0.12.x before 0.12.9, 4.x before 4.2.3, and 5.x before 5.1.1 does not ensure the availability of a parser for each HTTP socket, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (uncaughtException and service outage) via a pipelined HTTP request.

Affected products

Node.js: 0.12.0, 0.12.1, 0.12.2, 0.12.3, 0.12.4, 0.12.5 (+8)

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-01/msg00045.html
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1IV79524
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21972419
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/78207
https://nodejs.org/en/blog/vulnerability/cve-2015-8027_cve-2015-6764/
https://nodejs.org/en/blog/vulnerability/december-2015-security-releases/
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201612-43
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-01/msg00045.html
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1IV79524
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21972419
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/78207
https://nodejs.org/en/blog/vulnerability/cve-2015-8027_cve-2015-6764/

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