Resource exhaustion in Node.js - CVE-2019-5737

Vulnerability identifier: #VU26284

CSH Severity: Medium

CVSS v4: 8.7 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]

CVE-ID: CVE-2019-5737

CWE-ID: CWE-400

Exploitation vector: Remote access

Exploit availability: No public exploit available

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to incorrect processing of keep-alive packets. A remote attacker can send keep-alive packets very slowly and trigger resource exhaustion.

Node.js
Gentoo Linux
Fedora
Opensuse
nodejs-current (Alpine package)
nodejs
rh-nodejs8-nodejs (Red Hat package)
IBM Cloud Transformation Advisor

Install updates from vendor's website.

Node.js - addressed in versions 6.17.0, 8.15.1, 10.15.2, 11.10.1
nodejs-current (Alpine package) - update to 11.10.1-r0
IBM Cloud Transformation Advisor - update to 1.9.6
nodejs - update to 6.17.1-1.el7
rh-nodejs8-nodejs (Red Hat package) - update to 8.16.0-1.el7

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-03/msg00041.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00046.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00059.html
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1821
• https://nodejs.org/en/blog/vulnerability/february-2019-security-releases/
• https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190502-0008/

• Denial of service in Node.js
• Gentoo update for Node.js
• OpenSUSE Linux update for nodejs10
• OpenSUSE Linux update for nodejs6
• OpenSUSE Linux update for nodejs4
• Resource exhaustion in nodejs-current (Alpine package)
• Resource exhaustion in IBM Cloud Transformation Advisor
• Red Hat Software Collections update for rh-nodejs8-nodejs
• Fedora EPEL 7 update for nodejs