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CVE-2016-10539

Updated on 31 May 2018

Severity

7.5 High severity

Details

CVSS score
7.5
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE ID
Links
NISTCIRCLRHELUbuntu

Overview

About vulnerability

negotiator is an HTTP content negotiator for Node.js and is used by many modules and frameworks including Express and Koa. The header for “Accept-Language”, when parsed by negotiator 0.6.0 and earlier is vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service via a specially crafted string.

Details

Affected product:
Acorn , Express , accepts , compression , connect , loopback , negotiator , serve-index , strong-remoting
Affected packages:
negotiator @ 0.5.3 (+11 more)
negotiator is an HTTP content negotiator for Node.js and is used by many modules and frameworks including Express and Koa. The header for “Accept-Language”, when parsed by negotiator 0.6.0 and earlier is vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service via a specially crafted string.

Fixes