CVE-2019-5739

HIGH severity · CVSS 7.5 · Uncontrolled resource consumption

7.5CVSS HIGH

Summary

Keep-alive HTTP and HTTPS connections can remain open and inactive for up to 2 minutes in Node.js 6.16.0 and earlier. Node.js 8.0.0 introduced a dedicated server.keepAliveTimeout which defaults to 5 seconds. The behavior in Node.js 6.16.0 and earlier is a potential Denial of Service (DoS) attack vector. Node.js 6.17.0 introduces server.keepAliveTimeout and the 5-second default.

Impact & exploitability

Attack vectorNetwork

Attack complexityLow

Privileges requiredNone

User interactionNone

Confidentiality impactNone

Integrity impactNone

Availability impactHigh

Exploit probability (EPSS)0%

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected products we track (1)

Node.js

Recommendation

Apply the vendor fix promptly. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.

Additional information

NVD record
https://nodejs.org/en/blog/vulnerability/february-2019-security-releases/Advisory
https://nodejs.org/en/blog/vulnerability/february-2019-security-releases/Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-03/msg00041.htmlAdvisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00046.htmlAdvisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202003-48Advisory
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190502-0008/Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-03/msg00041.htmlAdvisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00046.htmlAdvisory