CVE-2017-16119: Fresh Project Fresh

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 1.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Fresh is a module used by the Express.js framework for HTTP response freshness testing. It is vulnerable to a regular expression denial of service when it is passed specially crafted input to parse. This causes the event loop to be blocked causing a denial of service condition.

Affected products

• Fresh Project Fresh: before 0.5.2 (fixed in 0.5.2)

Published 2018-06-07. Last modified 2026-10-08.