CyberRota Analysis
AI analysis pending.
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.