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node-fresh — security advisory
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.
- Products
- node-fresh
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 0.2.0-2
- CVEs
- CVE-2017-16119
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 28 Oct 2026, 11:07 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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.
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2017-16119
node-fresh
Fixed versions: 0.2.0-2
node-fresh
Fixed versions: 0.2.0-2
node-fresh
Fixed versions: 0.2.0-2
Complete source record
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"published_at": "2018-06-07T02:29:02.987+00:00"
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