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CVE-2015-9242
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.…
High7.5EPSS 2.1%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- hackerone
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.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.1% · top 19% of all CVEs (4 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.
Weakness
Affected products
HackerOne · ecstatic node module
- affected <1.4.0
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- npmecstaticGHSA-vwjc-q9px-r9vq (opens in a new tab)
References (3)
- https://github.com/jfhbrook/node-ecstatic/pull/179 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://bugs.chromium.org/p/v8/issues/detail?id=4640 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/64 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-vwjc-q9px-r9vq (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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