Vulnerability Report

CVE-2014-7191

Title: Nodejs Node.Js Denial of Service (DoS)

DoS

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2014-7191.

CWE Category CWE-399

Published Date Oct 19, 2014

Modified Date May 06, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 5.0 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

0.69%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2014-7191: The qs module before 1.0.0 in Node.js does not call the compact function for array data, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by using a large index value to create a sparse array.

Impacted Vendors

nodejs 1

joyent 1

Reference Links

http://secunia.com/advisories/60026 http://secunia.com/advisories/62170 http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21685987 http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21687263 http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21687928 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:1380 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/96729 https://github.com/raymondfeng/node-querystring/commit/43a604b7847e56bba49d0ce3e222fe89569354d8 https://github.com/visionmedia/node-querystring/issues/104 https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/qs_dos_memory_exhaustion http://secunia.com/advisories/60026 http://secunia.com/advisories/62170 http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21685987 http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21687263 http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21687928 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:1380 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/96729 https://github.com/raymondfeng/node-querystring/commit/43a604b7847e56bba49d0ce3e222fe89569354d8 https://github.com/visionmedia/node-querystring/issues/104 https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/qs_dos_memory_exhaustion

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-2014-7191 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

May 06, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

May 06, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 12, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

October 19, 2014 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.