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CVE-2015-9242

N/A
Published: May 29, 2018 at 08:00 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 12:36 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorEcstatic

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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 2%

Description

Certain input strings when passed to new Date() or Date.parse() in ecstatic node module before 1.4.0 will cause v8 to raise an exception. This leads to a crash and denial of service in ecstatic when this input is passed into the server via the If-Modified-Since header.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

Ecstatic· Ecstatic Projectnpm
95%
v < 1.4.0
Affected range stops below 1.4.0, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet, and no fixed version or vendor advisory is recorded against it.

References (3)

x_refsource_MISCIssue TrackingThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/v8/issues/detail?id=4640
x_refsource_MISCIssue TrackingThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://github.com/jfhbrook/node-ecstatic/pull/179
x_refsource_MISCThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/64

CVSS

5MEDIUM[email protected]
Confidentiality
NONE
Integrity
NONE
Availability
PARTIAL
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-400CWE-20

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