Forwarded Module Denial of Service Vulnerability

forwarded module is a Node.js module for parsing HTTP X-Forwarded-For headers. A security vulnerability exists in the forwarded module. An attacker can exploit this vulnerability with specially crafted input to cause a denial of service...

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...

Race condition

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...