Description
Keep-alive HTTP and HTTPS connections can remain open and inactive for up to 2 minutes in Node.js 6.16.0 and earlier. Node.js 8.0.0 introduced a dedicated server.keepAliveTimeout which defaults to 5 seconds. The behavior in Node.js 6.16.0 and earlier is a potential Denial of Service (DoS) attack vector. Node.js 6.17.0 introduces server.keepAliveTimeout and the 5-second default.
Published: 2019-03-28
Score: 7.5 High
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Advisories
Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2019-15312 Keep-alive HTTP and HTTPS connections can remain open and inactive for up to 2 minutes in Node.js 6.16.0 and earlier. Node.js 8.0.0 introduced a dedicated server.keepAliveTimeout which defaults to 5 seconds. The behavior in Node.js 6.16.0 and earlier is a potential Denial of Service (DoS) attack vector. Node.js 6.17.0 introduces server.keepAliveTimeout and the 5-second default.
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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: nodejs

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-04T20:01:52.297Z

Reserved: 2019-01-09T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2019-5739

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Status : Modified

Published: 2019-03-28T17:29:01.647

Modified: 2024-11-21T04:45:25.073

Link: CVE-2019-5739

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Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2019-02-28T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2019-5739 - Bugzilla

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