Vulnerability Report

CVE-2013-4450

Title: Nodejs Denial of Service (DoS)

DoS

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2013-4450.

CWE Category CWE-20

Published Date Oct 21, 2013

Modified Date Apr 29, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 5.0 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

68.71%

Vulnerability Summary

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 CPU consumption) by sending a large number of pipelined requests without reading the response.

Impacted Vendors

nodejs 1

jenkins 1

Reference Links

http://blog.nodejs.org/2013/10/18/node-v0-10-21-stable/ http://blog.nodejs.org/2013/10/18/node-v0-8-26-maintenance/ http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-12/msg00051.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1842.html http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/10/20/1 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/63229 https://github.com/joyent/node/issues/6214 https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/pull/2548 https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21topic/nodejs/NEbweYB0ei0 https://kb.juniper.net/JSA10783 http://blog.nodejs.org/2013/10/18/node-v0-10-21-stable/ http://blog.nodejs.org/2013/10/18/node-v0-8-26-maintenance/ http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-12/msg00051.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1842.html http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/10/20/1 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/63229 https://github.com/joyent/node/issues/6214 https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/pull/2548 https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21topic/nodejs/NEbweYB0ei0 https://kb.juniper.net/JSA10783

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

5.0

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2013-4450 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

April 29, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 11, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

October 21, 2013 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A

Complexity N/A

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


                                    AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.