CVE-2020-8251

CWE-400 — Uncontrolled Resource Consumption9 documents6 sources
Severity
7.5HIGH
EPSS
5.0%
top 10.30%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
3
Nodejs NodeNodejs Node.jsFedoraproject Fedora
Timeline
PublishedSep 18
Latest updateMay 24

Description

Node.js < 14.11.0 is vulnerable to HTTP denial of service (DoS) attacks based on delayed requests submission which can make the server unable to accept new connections.

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 Packages2 packages

▶CVEListV5nodejs/node4.0 — 4.*+8
▶NVDnodejs/node.js14.0.0 — 14.11.0

Also affects: Fedora 33

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-9cwr-72m4-73jq: Node↗2022-05-24
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CVEList
CVE-2020-8251: Node↗2020-09-18
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📋Vendor Advisories

2
Red Hat
nodejs: Denial of Service by resource exhaustion CWE-400 due to unfinished HTTP/1.1 requests↗2020-09-15
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Debian
CVE-2020-8251: nodejs - Node.js < 14.11.0 is vulnerable to HTTP denial of service (DoS) attacks based on...↗2020
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💬Community

4
Bugzilla
CVE-2020-8251 nodejs:14/nodejs: Denial of Service by resource exhaustion CWE-400 due to unfinished HTTP/1.1 requests [fedora-all]↗2020-09-16
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Bugzilla
CVE-2020-8251 nodejs: Denial of Service by resource exhaustion CWE-400 due to unfinished HTTP/1.1 requests↗2020-09-16
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Bugzilla
CVE-2020-8251 nodejs: Denial of Service by resource exhaustion CWE-400 due to unfinished HTTP/1.1 requests [fedora-all]↗2020-09-16
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Bugzilla
CVE-2020-8251 nodejs: Denial of Service by resource exhaustion CWE-400 due to unfinished HTTP/1.1 requests [epel-all]↗2020-09-16
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CVE-2020-8251 (HIGH CVSS 7.5) | Node.js < 14.11.0 is vulnerable to | cvebase.io