CVE-2017-16118

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    CVE-2017-16118

    Published: 7 Jun 2018Last Modified: 10 Mar 2026

    Summary:

    Details: 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.

    References: , https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/527, http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104427

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    Availability
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