CVE-2017-16118

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...

CVE-2017-16118

The CVE-2017-16118 entry concerns the forwarded module used by Express.js to parse the X-Forwarded-For header. A crafted input can trigger a regular expression denial of service (ReDoS), blocking the event loop and causing a denial of service. Connected sources corroborate a ReDoS issue in the fo...