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CVE-2017-16118

HIGH · CVSS 7.5 EPSS 1.95%

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2018-06-07 · Last synced 2026-08-04

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CVE
CVE-2017-16118
Severity
HIGH
CVSS
7.5
EPSS
1.95%

Original NVD Description

The forwarded module is used by the Express.js framework to handle the X-Forwarded-For header. It is vulnerable to a regular expression denial of service when it's passed specially crafted input to parse. This causes the event loop to be blocked causing a denial of service condition.