{"id":"UBUNTU-CVE-2017-16119","details":"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.","modified":"2025-10-24T04:46:34Z","published":"2018-06-07T02:29:00Z","upstream":["CVE-2017-16119"],"references":[{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-16119"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/526"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-16119"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"node-fresh","ecosystem":"Ubuntu:16.04:LTS","purl":"pkg:deb/ubuntu/node-fresh@0.2.0-1?arch=source&distro=xenial"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"}]}],"versions":["0.2.0-1"],"ecosystem_specific":{"binaries":[{"binary_name":"node-fresh","binary_version":"0.2.0-1"}]},"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2017/UBUNTU-CVE-2017-16119.json"}},{"package":{"name":"node-fresh","ecosystem":"Ubuntu:18.04:LTS","purl":"pkg:deb/ubuntu/node-fresh@0.2.0-1?arch=source&distro=bionic"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"}]}],"versions":["0.2.0-1"],"ecosystem_specific":{"binaries":[{"binary_name":"node-fresh","binary_version":"0.2.0-1"}]},"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2017/UBUNTU-CVE-2017-16119.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.3","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"},{"type":"Ubuntu","score":"medium"}]}