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CVE-2017-16119
- Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.0)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 1.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: none known
- Published: 2018-06-07 · updated 2026-10-08
- Weakness: CWE-400
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.
Affected products
- HackerOne fresh node module: before 0.5.2 — fixed in 0.5.2
How to fix
Upgrade to a fixed version: HackerOne fresh node module 0.5.2. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.
References
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