CVE-2014-7191

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    CVE-2014-7191

    Published: 19 Oct 2014Last Modified: 10 Apr 2026

    Summary:

    Details: The qs module before 1.0.0 in Node.js does not call the compact function for array data, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by using a large index value to create a sparse array.

    References: http://secunia.com/advisories/60026, http://secunia.com/advisories/62170, https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:1380, https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/qs_dos_memory_exhaustion, https://github.com/raymondfeng/node-querystring/commit/43a604b7847e56bba49d0ce3e222fe89569354d8, https://github.com/visionmedia/node-querystring/issues/104, http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21685987, http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21687263, http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21687928, https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/96729

    Affected packages

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

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    User Interaction
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    Integrity
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    Availability
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