Fresh is a module used by the Express.js framework for HTTP response freshness testing. It is vulnerable to a regular expression denial of service when it is passed specially crafted input to parse. This causes the event loop to be blocked causing a denial of service condition.
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Affected Vendors & Products
Advisories
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EUVD |
EUVD-2018-0256 | Fresh is a module used by the Express.js framework for HTTP response freshness testing. It is vulnerable to a regular expression denial of service when it is passed specially crafted input to parse. This causes the event loop to be blocked causing a denial of service condition. |
Github GHSA |
GHSA-9qj9-36jm-prpv | Regular Expression Denial of Service in fresh |
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Solution
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Workaround
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History
Thu, 08 Oct 2026 20:30:00 +0000
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: hackerone
Published:
Updated: 2026-10-08T19:43:05.054Z
Reserved: 2017-10-29T00:00:00.000Z
Link: CVE-2017-16119
Updated: 2024-08-05T20:13:07.207Z
Status : Modified
Published: 2018-06-07T02:29:02.987
Modified: 2026-10-08T20:17:26.467
Link: CVE-2017-16119
OpenCVE Enrichment
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Weaknesses
EUVD
Github GHSA