CVE-2018-7161: Node.js

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 7.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

All versions of Node.js 8.x, 9.x, and 10.x are vulnerable and the severity is HIGH. An attacker can cause a denial of service (DoS) by causing a node server providing an http2 server to crash. This can be accomplished by interacting with the http2 server in a manner that triggers a cleanup bug where objects are used in native code after they are no longer available. This has been addressed by updating the http2 implementation.

Affected products

• Node.js Node.js: from 8.0.0, up to and including 8.8.1; from 8.9.0, before 8.11.3 (fixed in 8.11.3); from 9.0.0, before 9.11.2 (fixed in 9.11.2); from 10.0.0, before 10.4.1 (fixed in 10.4.1)

Published 2018-06-13. Last modified 2026-10-08.