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CVE-2018-7161 (GCVE-0-2018-7161)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2018-06-13 16:00 – Updated: 2024-09-17 01:06
VLAI
Summary
All versions of Node.js 8.x, 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 server providing an http2 server to crash. This can be accomplished by interacting with the http2 server in a manner that triggers a cleanup bug where objects are used in native code after they are no longer available. This has been addressed by updating the http2 implementation.
Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • Denial of Service
Assigner
References
URL Tags
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https://nodejs.org/en/blog/vulnerability/june-201… x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202003-48 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
The Node.js Project Node.js Affected: 8.x+
Affected: 9.x+
Affected: 10.x+
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Date Public
2018-06-12 00:00
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