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CVE-2015-9242

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2018-05-29 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-400

Description

Certain input strings when passed to new Date() or Date.parse() in ecstatic node module before 1.4.0 will cause v8 to raise an exception. This leads to a crash and denial of service in ecstatic when this input is passed into the server via the If-Modified-Since header.

Affected products

• HackerOne ecstatic node module: before 1.4.0 — fixed in 1.4.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: HackerOne ecstatic node module 1.4.0. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://bugs.chromium.org/p/v8/issues/detail?id=4640
• https://github.com/jfhbrook/node-ecstatic/pull/179
• https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/64
• https://bugs.chromium.org/p/v8/issues/detail?id=4640
• https://github.com/jfhbrook/node-ecstatic/pull/179
• https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/64

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