Severity
7.5HIGH
EPSS
8.5%
top 7.64%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Timeline
PublishedNov 28
Latest updateMay 13

Description

Node.js: All versions prior to Node.js 6.15.0, 8.14.0, 10.14.0 and 11.3.0: Denial of Service with large HTTP headers: By using a combination of many requests with maximum sized headers (almost 80 KB per connection), and carefully timed completion of the headers, it is possible to cause the HTTP server to abort from heap allocation failure. Attack potential is mitigated by the use of a load balancer or other proxy layer.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 3.6

Affected Packages7 packages

NVDnodejs/node.js6.0.06.15.0+3
Debiannodejs< 10.15.0~dfsg-6+3
CVEListV5node.js/node.js4 versions+3
CVEListV5the_node.js_project/node.jsAll versions prior to Node.js 6.15.0, 8.14.0, 10.14.0 and 11.3.0

Also affects: Enterprise Linux 8.0, 8.1, 8.2, 8.4, 8.6

Patches

🔴Vulnerability Details

3
GHSA
GHSA-2p2c-vwq7-7vg6: Node2022-05-13
CVEList
CVE-2018-12121: Node2018-11-28
OSV
CVE-2018-12121: Node2018-11-28

📋Vendor Advisories

5
Microsoft
In Node.js including 6.x before 6.17.0 8.x before 8.15.1 10.x before 10.15.2 and 11.x before 11.10.1 an attacker can cause a Denial of Service (DoS) by establishing an HTTP or HTTPS connection in keep2019-03-12
Red Hat
nodejs: Insufficient Slowloris fix causing DoS via server.headersTimeout bypass2019-02-28
Red Hat
nodejs: Denial of Service with large HTTP headers2018-11-27
Microsoft
Node.js: All versions prior to Node.js 6.15.0 8.14.0 10.14.0 and 11.3.0: Denial of Service with large HTTP headers: By using a combination of many requests with maximum sized headers (almost 80 KB per2018-11-13
Debian
CVE-2018-12121: nodejs - Node.js: All versions prior to Node.js 6.15.0, 8.14.0, 10.14.0 and 11.3.0: Denia...2018

💬Community

3
Bugzilla
CVE-2018-12121 nodejs: Denial of Service with large HTTP headers [epel-all]2018-12-19
Bugzilla
CVE-2018-12121 nodejs: Denial of Service with large HTTP headers2018-12-19
Bugzilla
CVE-2018-12121 nodejs: Denial of Service with large HTTP headers [fedora-all]2018-12-19
CVE-2018-12121 (HIGH CVSS 7.5) | Node.js: All versions prior to Node | cvebase.io