Multiple vulnerabilities in Node.js

Description

Multiple serious vulnerabilities have been found in Node.js. Malicious users can exploit these vulnerabilities to cause denial of service.

Below is a complete list of vulnerabilities:

1. An unspecified vulnerability in the HTTP parser can be exploited remotely via Content-Length parameter to perform unspecified attacks;
2. A regular expression vulnerability in the ‘path’ module can be exploited remotely via specially crafted string to cause denial of service;
3. A DNS rebinding vulnerability in Node.js Inspector can be exploited remotely co execute arbitrary code.

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Technical details

Vulnerability (2) affects only Node.js 4.x

Vulnerability (3) affects only Node.js 6.x

Original advisories

• March 2018 Security Releases

Related products

• Node.js

CVE list

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