UBUNTU-CVE-2017-16119

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Source
https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-16119
Import Source
https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2017/UBUNTU-CVE-2017-16119.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/UBUNTU-CVE-2017-16119
Upstream
Published
2018-06-07T02:29:00Z
Modified
2025-07-16T07:36:18.564056Z
Severity
  • 7.5 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
  • Ubuntu - medium
Summary
[none]
Details

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

Affected packages

Ubuntu:Pro:16.04:LTS / node-fresh

Package

Name
node-fresh
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/node-fresh@0.2.0-1?arch=source&distro=esm-apps/xenial

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

0.*

0.2.0-1

Ubuntu:Pro:18.04:LTS / node-fresh

Package

Name
node-fresh
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/node-fresh@0.2.0-1?arch=source&distro=esm-apps/bionic

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

0.*

0.2.0-1

Ubuntu:20.04:LTS / node-fresh

Package

Name
node-fresh
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/node-fresh@0.5.2-1?arch=source&distro=focal

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
0.5.2-1

Affected versions

0.*

0.2.0-3

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "availability": "No subscription required",
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "node-fresh",
            "binary_version": "0.5.2-1"
        }
    ]
}