Keep-alive HTTP and HTTPS connections can remain open and inactive for up to 2 minutes in Node.js 6.16.0 and earlier. Node.js 8.0.0 introduced a dedicated server.keepAliveTimeout which defaults to 5 seconds. The behavior in Node.js 6.16.0 and earlier is a potential Denial of Service (DoS) attack vector. Node.js 6.17.0 introduces server.keepAliveTimeout and the 5-second default.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: nodejs

Published: 2019-03-28T16:27:34

Updated: 2024-08-04T20:01:52.297Z

Reserved: 2019-01-09T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2019-5739

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2019-03-28T17:29:01.647

Modified: 2020-10-16T19:08:47.133

Link: CVE-2019-5739

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2019-02-28T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2019-5739 - Bugzilla