CVE-2017-16118
3Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackepss 1.9%
exploitation probability
1.9%top 21% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
The forwarded module is used by the Express.js framework to handle the X-Forwarded-For header. It is vulnerable to a regular expression denial of service when it's passed specially crafted input to parse. This causes the event loop to be blocked causing a denial of service condition.
Affected products
HackerOne · forwarded node module