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CVE-2017-16118
HIGH · CVSS 7.5
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2018-06-07T02:29:02.940 · Last modified 2026-06-17T01:08:49.727

Summary

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.

Affected products

forwarded_project — forwarded

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References

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