7.5
CVSSv3

CVE-2015-8027

Published: 02/01/2016 Updated: 01/07/2017
CVSS v2 Base Score: 5 | Impact Score: 2.9 | Exploitability Score: 10
CVSS v3 Base Score: 7.5 | Impact Score: 3.6 | Exploitability Score: 3.9
VMScore: 446
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Vulnerability Summary

Node.js 0.12.x prior to 0.12.9, 4.x prior to 4.2.3, and 5.x prior to 5.1.1 does not ensure the availability of a parser for each HTTP socket, which allows remote malicious users to cause a denial of service (uncaughtException and service outage) via a pipelined HTTP request.

Vulnerability Trend

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nodejs node.js 0.12.7

nodejs node.js 0.12.6

nodejs node.js 5.1.0

nodejs node.js 5.0.0

nodejs node.js 0.12.4

nodejs node.js 0.12.3

nodejs node.js 4.2.0

nodejs node.js 0.12.8

nodejs node.js 0.12.1

nodejs node.js 0.12.5

nodejs node.js 4.2.2

nodejs node.js 4.2.1

nodejs node.js 0.12.2

nodejs node.js 0.12.0

Vendor Advisories

Debian Bug report logs - #806385 nodejs: CVE-2015-8027 CVE-2015-6764 Package: src:nodejs; Maintainer for src:nodejs is Debian Javascript Maintainers <pkg-javascript-devel@listsaliothdebianorg>; Reported by: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debianorg> Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2015 21:09:02 UTC Severity: important Tags: secur ...
Nodejs 012x before 0129, 4x before 423, and 5x before 511 does not ensure the availability of a parser for each HTTP socket, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (uncaughtException and service outage) via a pipelined HTTP request ...

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