CVE-2017-16136: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

June 7, 2018 (updated October 9, 2019)

method-override is a module used by the Express.js framework to let you use HTTP verbs such as PUT or DELETE in places where the client does not support it. method-override is vulnerable to a regular expression denial of service vulnerability when specially crafted input is passed in to be parsed via the X-HTTP-Method-Override header.

References

nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-16136

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