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CVE-2017-16119

No known exploitation. EPSS puts it in the 75th percentile. Fixed in 0.5.2.

CVSS 3.17.5HighEPSS percentile75th1.6% chance in 30 daysCISA KEVNot listedNo confirmed exploitation
No public exploit knownFix0.5.2Upgrade to this build

Published Updated Sources: CVE.org, NVD, GitHub

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  • HackerOne fresh node moduleAffected: < 0.5.2Upgrade to: not statedStated by: CVE record
  • Npm FreshAffected: < 0.5.2Upgrade to: 0.5.2Stated by: GitHub advisory
  • Fresh Project FreshAffected: < 0.5.2Upgrade to: 0.5.2Stated by: NVD

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What it is

From the CVE record

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.

In plain language

No plain-language summary for this CVE yet.

Exploitation

Where each signal puts this CVE on the scale from published to confirmed exploited.

EPSS75th
CISA KEV

Not in the catalog. CISA has not confirmed exploitation.

Public exploits

No public exploit or proof of concept found in the sources we track.

EPSS

1.6% chance of exploitation activity in the next 30 days, which ranks it in the 75th percentile of scored CVEs.

Exploit Prediction Scoring System, FIRST.org. A probability, not a confirmation.

Lifecycle

7 events over 3045 days, from the signal feeds we watch.

  1. Patch availablerecord updated
  2. Patch availablerecord updated
  3. Publishedweakness classified, att&ck mapped

Affected products

Technical detail

CVSS 3.1 vector

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CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Scored 7.5 by NVD.

How it is reached

  • Attack Vector NetworkExploitable remotely over the network without any special conditions
  • Attack Complexity LowNo special conditions — the attack can be reliably reproduced
  • Privileges Required NoneNo authentication required — anyone can exploit this
  • User Interaction NoneNo user interaction needed — fully automated exploitation

Scope

  • Scope UnchangedImpact is limited to the vulnerable component itself

Impact if exploited

  • Confidentiality NoneNo confidentiality impact
  • Integrity NoneNo integrity impact
  • Availability HighTotal denial of service — the component is completely unavailable

Weaknesses

ATT&CK techniques

Mapped from the weaknesses above (CWE to ATT&CK), not observed in attacks.

Sources

References in the record

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