Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) Vulnerability in method-override Module

CVE-2017-16136 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

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 doesn't 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.

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