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Fencer Vulns
high 7.5

CVE-2017-16014 json

Insufficient Error Handling in http-proxy

published 2018-06-04 8 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-9xw9-pvgv-6p76 , EUVD-2018-0743

cvss
7.5
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.7%
EPSS 1.7% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 76%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Http-proxy is a proxying library. Because of the way errors are handled in versions before 0.7.0, an attacker that forces an error can crash the server, causing a denial of service.

Patch / fix

  • npm http-proxy 0.7.0
  • http-proxy_project http-proxy 0.7.0

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2017-16014 updated cvss 7.5

nodejs-http-proxy: DOS via improper error handling in middleware implementation

  • Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 3 nodejs-http-proxy
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

1.66% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 76% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
GitHub 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
npm http-proxy
<0.7.0
0.7.0

Affected products

  • HackerOne http-proxy node module

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-703 Improper Check or Handling of Exceptional Conditions
  • CWE-388 7PK - Errors

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.