CVE-2013-4450
The HTTP server in Node.js 0.10.x before 0.10.21 and 0.8.x before 0.8.26 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory and…
- 5.0MediumCVSS base score
- 37.2%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 1.5% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 1Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
The HTTP server in Node.js 0.10.x before 0.10.21 and 0.8.x before 0.8.26 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory and CPU consumption) by sending a large number of pipelined requests without reading the response.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list a Metasploit module for it.
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Metasploit modules1 module
- Node.js HTTP Pipelining Denial of Service (Metasploit module) (opens in a new tab)
auxiliary/dos/http/nodejs_pipeliningRank normaldisclosed 18 Oct 2013
Modules, templates and exploits as listed by the Metasploit Framework (BSD-3-Clause), ProjectDiscovery's Nuclei templates (MIT) and the Exploit Database (GPLv2), read once a day. Where the data comes from
Timeline
ID reserved
By redhat
- 4 months later
· 4 months later
Published
- 11 years later
· 11 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium5.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 37.2% · top 1.5% of all CVEs (11 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.0.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
References10
- https://kb.juniper.net/JSA10783 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- RHSA-2013:1842 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2013:1863 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20131019 Re: CVE Request: Node.js HTTP Pipelining DoS (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- 63229 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- http://blog.nodejs.org/2013/10/18/node-v0-10-21-stable/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://blog.nodejs.org/2013/10/18/node-v0-8-26-maintenance/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/pull/2548 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21topic/nodejs/NEbweYB0ei0 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://github.com/joyent/node/issues/6214 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_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)
- EUVD EUVD-2013-4321 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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