CVE-2017-14919

high

Published 2017-10-30 · Modified 2026-05-13

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CVSS v3

7.5

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

7.5

Description

Node.js before 4.8.5, 6.x before 6.11.5, and 8.x before 8.8.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (uncaught exception and crash) by leveraging a change in the zlib module 1.2.9 making 8 an invalid value for the windowBits parameter.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

83%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

OS	Version	Status	Fixed in
debian	bookworm	fixed	`0`
debian	bullseye	fixed	`0`
debian	forky	fixed	`0`
debian	sid	fixed	`0`
debian	trixie	fixed	`0`

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions
nodejs	node.js	`4.8.2`
nodejs	node.js	`4.8.3`
nodejs	node.js	`4.8.4`
nodejs	node.js	`6.10.2`
nodejs	node.js	`6.10.3`
nodejs	node.js	`6.11.0`
nodejs	node.js	`6.11.1`
nodejs	node.js	`6.11.2`
nodejs	node.js	`6.11.3`
nodejs	node.js	`6.11.4`
nodejs	node.js	`8.0.0`
nodejs	node.js	`8.1.0`
nodejs	node.js	`8.1.1`
nodejs	node.js	`8.1.2`
nodejs	node.js	`8.1.3`
nodejs	node.js	`8.1.4`
nodejs	node.js	`8.2.0`
nodejs	node.js	`8.2.1`
nodejs	node.js	`8.3.0`
nodejs	node.js	`8.4.0`
nodejs	node.js	`8.5.0`
nodejs	node.js	`8.6.0`
nodejs	node.js	`8.7.0`

References

CWEs

CWE-20

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