CVE-2017-16014 Information

Description

Http-proxy is a proxying library. Because of the way errors are handled in versions before 0.7.0 an attacker that forces an error can crash the server causing a denial of service.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Reference

https://github.com/nodejitsu/node-http-proxy/pull/101 https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/323

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

NONE

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

7.5