MEDIUM SEVERITY

CVE-2013-4450

Nodejs vulnerability

CVSS
5.0
EPSS
37.2%
EPSS pct
98th
Exploited
No known
The HTTP server in Node.js 0.10.x before 0.10.21 and 0.8.x before 0.8.26 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory and CPU consumption) by sending a large number of pipelined requests without reading the response.
Affected vendor
Nodejs
Affected product
Nodejs
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weakness type (CWE)
  • CWE-20 — Improper Input Validation
Published
2013-10-21

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no authentication. Successful exploitation leads to partial impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 37.2% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 98% of all scored CVEs.

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