Security advisory

{
  "id": "02c687254030edf31110722543e86c28a047854a5672a7bb55052973e53a7d4e",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2017-16136",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2017-16136",
    "summary": "method-override is a module used by the Express.js framework to let you use HTTP verbs such as PUT or DELETE in places where the client doesn't support it. method-override is vulnerable to a regular expression denial of service vulnerability when specially crafted input is passed in to be parsed via the X-HTTP-Method-Override header.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2017-16136",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "high",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2017-16136",
      "aliases": [
        "CVE-2017-16136",
        "GHSA-qx2f-477c-35rq"
      ],
      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "repo": "https://github.com/expressjs/method-override",
              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "0"
                },
                {
                  "fixed": "ddfc7ccd42c468bfef54b7698d1c4acb85cce758"
                }
              ],
              "database_specific": {
                "extracted_events": [
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:expressjs:method-override:*:*:*:*:*:node.js:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "0"
                      },
                      {
                        "fixed": "2.3.10"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_RANGE"
                  }
                ]
              }
            }
          ],
          "versions": [
            "2.3.9",
            "2.3.8",
            "2.3.7",
            "2.3.6",
            "2.3.5",
            "2.3.4",
            "2.3.3",
            "2.3.2",
            "2.3.1",
            "2.3.0",
            "2.2.0",
            "2.1.3",
            "2.1.2",
            "2.1.1",
            "2.1.0",
            "2.0.2",
            "2.0.1",
            "2.0.0",
            "1.0.2",
            "1.0.1",
            "1.0.0"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-16136.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-24T10:31:00.700604460Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/538"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {}
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2017-16136",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 439611,
  "published_at": "2018-06-07T02:29:03.77+00:00"
}