CVE-2017-16026
Request is an http client. If a request is made using ```multipart```, and the body type is a ```number```, then the specified number of…
- 5.9MediumCVSS base score
- 2.6%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 15% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Request is an http client. If a request is made using ```multipart```, and the body type is a ```number```, then the specified number of non-zero memory is passed in the body. This affects Request >=2.2.6 <2.47.0 || >2.51.0 <=2.67.0.
Timeline
ID reserved
By hackerone
- 7 months later
· 7 months later
Published
- 6 years later
· 6 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 | 3.0 | Medium5.9 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.6% · top 15% of all CVEs (10 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.9.
Affected products
HackerOne · request node module
- affected >=2.2.6 <2.47.0 || >2.51.0 <=2.67.0
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- npmrequestGHSA-7xfp-9c55-5vqj (opens in a new tab)
References
3
- https://github.com/request/request/pull/2018 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/309 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://github.com/request/request/issues/1904 (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)
- EUVD EUVD-2018-0736 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-7xfp-9c55-5vqj (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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