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    CVE-2017-16118

    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.

    Published:Jun 7, 2018
    Last Modified:Nov 21, 2024
    EPS:Jun 7, 2018
    EPSS Score:0.006
    CVSS Score:7.5

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