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HIGHCVSS 7.5

CVE-2017-16119

CVE-2017-16119 updated by NVD

Modified
2026-10-10
Sources
nvd

Summary

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.

References

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