CVE-2020-8251

nodejs: Denial of Service by resource exhaustion CWE-400 due to unfinished HTTP/1.1 requests

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Severity

Important

Red Hat Product Security

7.5

CVSS 3.1

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Published · September 15, 2020

Updated · June 28, 2026

Description

A flaw was found in Node.js 14.x, in versions before 14.11, where it is vulnerable to a denial of service caused by delayed requests. When used as an edge server, this flaw allows an attacker to initiate a large number of HTTP requests, causing resource exhaustion and leaving the service unable to accept new connections. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability.

Statement

NodeJS is included in Red Hat Quay as a dependency of Yarn which is only used while building Red Hat Quay, and not during runtime.

CVSS score applicability

The CVSS score(s) listed for this vulnerability do not reflect the associated product's status, and are included for informational purposes to better understand the severity of this vulnerability.

Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.1 · 7.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CWE-400 · Uncontrolled Resource Consumption