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CVE-2015-9242 (GCVE-0-2015-9242)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2018-05-29 20:00 – Updated: 2024-09-17 03:12
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Summary
Certain input strings when passed to new Date() or Date.parse() in ecstatic node module before 1.4.0 will cause v8 to raise an exception. This leads to a crash and denial of service in ecstatic when this input is passed into the server via the If-Modified-Since header.
Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-400 - Denial of Service (CWE-400)
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
HackerOne ecstatic node module Affected: <1.4.0
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Date Public
2018-04-26 00:00
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