CVE detail

CVE-2020-8277 — CVE-2020-8277

Published 2020-11-19 · Modified 2026-06-17 · Vendor nodejs · Product node.js · Source nvd

HIGH

severity

CVSS-derived band

7.5

CVSS v3

0–10 scale

0.5416

EPSS probability

exploitation probability, 30d

99.0%

EPSS percentile

percentile vs all CVEs

NOT LISTED

CISA KEV

known exploited catalog

Description

A Node.js application that allows an attacker to trigger a DNS request for a host of their choice could trigger a Denial of Service in versions < 15.2.1, < 14.15.1, and < 12.19.1 by getting the application to resolve a DNS record with a larger number of responses. This is fixed in 15.2.1, 14.15.1, and 12.19.1.

Remediation

No vendor-published fix data in our corpus for this CVE. Check the references below or the vendor's PSIRT / security advisories page.

References

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