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.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: hackerone

Published: 2018-06-07T02:00:00Z

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

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

Link: CVE-2017-16118

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

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

Modified: 2019-10-09T23:24:47.893

Link: CVE-2017-16118

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

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

Links: CVE-2017-16118 - Bugzilla