CVE-2017-16026 (GCVE-0-2017-16026)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2018-06-04 19:00 – Updated: 2024-09-16 17:28
VLAI
Summary
Request is an http client. If a request is made using ```multipart```, and the body type is a ```number```, then the specified number of non-zero memory is passed in the body. This affects Request >=2.2.6 <2.47.0 || >2.51.0 <=2.67.0.
Severity
5.9 (Medium)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-201 - Information Exposure Through Sent Data (CWE-201)
Assigner
hackerone CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard D 59/100 over 186 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
HackerOne request node module Affected: >=2.2.6 <2.47.0 || >2.51.0 <=2.67.0
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Date Public
2018-04-26 00:00
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