CVE-2017-14919 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2017-14919?

CVE-2017-14919 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in Nodejs Node.js, published on 30 Oct 2017. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Node.js before 4.8.5, 6.x before 6.11.5, and 8.x before 8.8.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (uncaught exception and crash) by leveraging a change in the zlib module 1.2.9 making 8 an invalid value for the windowBits parameter.

Weakness: CWE-20

Which versions are affected by CVE-2017-14919?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Nodejs Node.js.

How do I fix CVE-2017-14919?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2017-14919 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2017-14919 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as ALPINE-CVE-2017-14919, CLEANSTART-2026-JL30943, CLEANSTART-2026-LL47862, GHSA-mvc4-gp8c-r52f.