Security Advisory

CVE-2019-5739

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2019-03-28 16:27:34

Last updated 2024-08-04 20:01:52

Assigner nodejs

State PUBLISHED

Description

Keep-alive HTTP and HTTPS connections can remain open and inactive for up to 2 minutes in Node.js 6.16.0 and earlier. Node.js 8.0.0 introduced a dedicated server.keepAliveTimeout which defaults to 5 seconds. The behavior in Node.js 6.16.0 and earlier is a potential Denial of Service (DoS) attack vector. Node.js 6.17.0 introduces server.keepAliveTimeout and the 5-second default.

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