UBUNTU-CVE-2019-5739

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2019-5739

    Published: 28 Mar 2019Last Modified: 22 Apr 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2019-5739

    Summary:

    Details: 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.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2019-5739, https://nodejs.org/en/blog/vulnerability/february-2019-security-releases/, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-5739

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: nodejs

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]~dfsg-1ubuntu4.2+esm3?arch=source&distro=esm-apps/xenial

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    0.10.25~dfsg2-2ubuntu1

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High