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CVE-2018-7161

All versions of Node.js 8.x, 9.x, and 10.x are vulnerable and the severity is HIGH. An attacker can cause a denial of service (DoS) by causing a node server providing an http2 server to crash. This can be accomplished by interacting with the http2 server in a manner that triggers a cleanup bug where objects are used in native code after they are no longer available. This has been addressed by…

Severity
High 7.5
Published
13 Jun 2018
Last changed
8 Oct 2026
Added to UpHeron
21 Oct 2026
Fixed in
8.11.3, 9.11.2, 10.4.1
Sources
NVD

Affected software

SoftwareAffected versions
Node.jsServers and applications · cpe:a:nodejs:node.js
  • From 8.0.0 up to 8.8.1
  • From 8.9.0 before 8.11.3
  • From 9.0.0 before 9.11.2
  • From 10.0.0 before 10.4.1

References

  • NVD https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-7161
  • CVE.org https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-7161