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CVE-2019-15604

nodejs: Remotely trigger an assertion on a TLS server with a malformed certificate string

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

5.9

CVSS 3.1

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Published · February 7, 2020

Updated · November 1, 2026

Description

An encoding error flaw exists in the Node.js code that is used to read a peer certificate in the TLS client authentication. An attacker can use this flaw to crash the process used to handle TLS client authentication.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.1 · 5.9
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CWE-172 · Improper Encoding or Decoding of Data