Description
The forwarded module is used by the Express.js framework to handle the X-Forwarded-For header. It is vulnerable to a regular expression denial of service when it's passed specially crafted input to parse. This causes the event loop to be blocked causing a denial of service condition.
Published: 2018-06-07
Score: 7.5 High
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2018-0298 The forwarded module is used by the Express.js framework to handle the X-Forwarded-For header. It is vulnerable to a regular expression denial of service when it's passed specially crafted input to parse. This causes the event loop to be blocked causing a denial of service condition.
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-mpcf-4gmh-23w8 Regular Expression Denial of Service in forwarded
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: hackerone

Published:

Updated: 2024-09-17T01:06:51.232Z

Reserved: 2017-10-29T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2017-16118

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2018-06-07T02:29:02.940

Modified: 2024-11-21T03:15:51.410

Link: CVE-2017-16118

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2018-06-07T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2017-16118 - Bugzilla

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