### [CVE-2017-16119](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-16119)
![](https://img.shields.io/static/v1?label=Product&message=fresh%20node%20module&color=blue)
![](https://img.shields.io/static/v1?label=Version&message=%3C%200.5.2%20&color=brightgreen)
![](https://img.shields.io/static/v1?label=Vulnerability&message=Denial%20of%20Service%20(CWE-400)&color=brightgreen)

### Description

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.

### POC

#### Reference
No PoCs from references.

#### Github
- https://github.com/ARPSyndicate/cvemon
- https://github.com/HotDB-Community/HotDB-Engine
- https://github.com/ossf-cve-benchmark/CVE-2017-16119