expressjs/method-override · Security

method-override ReDoS when untrusted user input passed into X-HTTP-Method-Override header

GHSA ID
GHSA-qx2f-477c-35rq
CVE ID
CVE-2017-16136
Severity
high
Published
Updated
CVSS
7.5 · CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v3
7.5 · CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Description

Affected versions of method-override are vulnerable to a regular expression denial of service vulnerability when untrusted user input is passed into the X-HTTP-Method-Override header.

Recommendation

Update to version 2.3.10 or later

CWEs

References