CVE-2019-5739

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CVSS 3.1

7.5 high

EPSS

5%p92

Published

Mar 28, 2019 (Mar 28, 2019)

Modified

Jun 17, 2026

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.

Vendors: nodejs opensuse
Products: node.js, leap
Weakness: CWE-400, CWE-770
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

NVD CVE.org GitHub PoCs EPSS (5.1%)

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