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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2018-7162

All versions of Node.js 9.x and 10.x are vulnerable and the severity is HIGH. An attacker can cause a denial of service (DoS) by causing a node process which provides an http server supporting TLS server to crash. This can be accomplished by sending duplicate/unexpected messages during the handshake. This vulnerability has been addressed by updating the TLS implementation.

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1 Nov 2026, 06:52 UTC · Revision 1

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CVE-2018-7162

core-osv · Original source

Published 13 Jun 2018, 16:29 UTC

All versions of Node.js 9.x and 10.x are vulnerable and the severity is HIGH. An attacker can cause a denial of service (DoS) by causing a node process which provides an http server supporting TLS server to crash. This can be accomplished by sending duplicate/unexpected messages during the handshake. This vulnerability has been addressed by updating the TLS implementation.

osv:CVE-2018-7162
Complete source record
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