CVEs-PoC/2017/CVE-2017-16118.md

CVE-2017-16118

Description

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.

POC

Reference

No PoCs from references.

Github

• https://github.com/ARPSyndicate/cvemon
• https://github.com/ossf-cve-benchmark/CVE-2017-16118