PT-2018-6164 · Unknown · Method-Override

Published 2018-06-07 · Updated 2019-10-09 · CVE-2017-16136

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

7.5

High

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: method-override versions prior to 2.3.10

Description: The issue concerns a regular expression denial of service vulnerability. It occurs when specially crafted input is passed to be parsed via the X-HTTP-Method-Override header. This can happen when untrusted user input is passed into this header.

Recommendations: Update to version 2.3.10 or later. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting the use of the X-HTTP-Method-Override header to minimize the risk of exploitation.

Fix

Resource Exhaustion

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-400

Related Identifiers

CVE-2017-16136

GHSA-QX2F-477C-35RQ

Affected Products

Method-Override

References · 7

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2017-16136 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-qx2f-477c-35rq · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-16136 · Security Note
• https://github.com/expressjs/method-override · Note
• https://github.com/expressjs/method-override/commit/4c58835a61fdf7a8e070d6f8ecd5379a961d0987 · Note
• https://npmjs.com/advisories/538 · Note
• https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/538 · Note