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High · 7.5 CVE-2017-16136 EUVD-2018-0315GHSA-qx2f-477c-35rq

method-override ReDoS when untrusted user input passed into X-HTTP-Method-Override header

Published Jun 7, 2018 · Updated Sep 17, 2024 · Assigned by hackerone

Description

method-override is a module used by the Express.js framework to let you use HTTP verbs such as PUT or DELETE in places where the client doesn't support it. method-override is vulnerable to a regular expression denial of service vulnerability when specially crafted input is passed in to be parsed via the X-HTTP-Method-Override header.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
HackerOne method-override node module <= 1.0.2 || > 2.0.0 < 2.3.10 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
npm method-override >= 1.0.2, < 2.3.10 2.3.10 GHSA-qx2f-477c-35rq
npm method-override >= 2.0.0, < 2.3.10 2.3.10 GHSA-qx2f-477c-35rq

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