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CVE-2013-4450

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Description

The HTTP server in Node.js 0.10.x before 0.10.21 and 0.8.x before 0.8.26 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory and CPU consumption) by sending a large number of pipelined requests without reading the response.

References

https://kb.juniper.net/JSA10783

https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21topic/nodejs/NEbweYB0ei0

https://github.com/joyent/node/issues/6214

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/63229

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/10/20/1

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1842.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-12/msg00051.html

http://blog.nodejs.org/2013/10/18/node-v0-8-26-maintenance/

http://blog.nodejs.org/2013/10/18/node-v0-10-21-stable/

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2013-10-21

Updated: 2025-04-11

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 10

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: Critical

EPSS

EPSS: 0.68714

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