High severity7.5NVD Advisory· Published Mar 28, 2019· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2019-5739
CVE-2019-5739
Description
Keep-alive HTTP and HTTPS connections can remain open and inactive for up to 2 minutes in Node.js 6.16.0 and earlier. Node.js 8.0.0 introduced a dedicated server.keepAliveTimeout which defaults to 5 seconds. The behavior in Node.js 6.16.0 and earlier is a potential Denial of Service (DoS) attack vector. Node.js 6.17.0 introduces server.keepAliveTimeout and the 5-second default.
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Affected products
8- osv-coords6 versionspkg:rpm/suse/nodejs4&distro=SUSE%20Enterprise%20Storage%204pkg:rpm/suse/nodejs4&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20Web%20and%20Scripting%2012pkg:rpm/suse/nodejs6&distro=SUSE%20Enterprise%20Storage%204pkg:rpm/suse/nodejs6&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20Web%20and%20Scripting%2012pkg:rpm/suse/nodejs6&distro=SUSE%20OpenStack%20Cloud%207pkg:rpm/suse/nodejs6&distro=SUSE%20OpenStack%20Cloud%20Crowbar%208
< 4.9.1-15.20.1+ 5 more
- (no CPE)range: < 4.9.1-15.20.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.9.1-15.20.1
- (no CPE)range: < 6.17.0-11.24.1
- (no CPE)range: < 6.17.0-11.24.1
- (no CPE)range: < 6.17.0-11.24.1
- (no CPE)range: < 6.17.0-11.24.1
Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
References
5- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-03/msg00041.htmlnvdThird Party Advisory
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00046.htmlnvdMailing ListThird Party Advisory
- nodejs.org/en/blog/vulnerability/february-2019-security-releases/nvdVendor Advisory
- security.gentoo.org/glsa/202003-48nvdThird Party Advisory
- security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190502-0008/nvdThird Party Advisory
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