description: Keep-alive HTTP and HTTPS connections can remain open and inactive for up to 2 minutes in Node.js 6.16.0 and earlier. Node.js 8.0.0 introduced a dedicated server.keepAliveTimeout which defaults to 5 seconds. The behavior in Node.js 6.16.0 and earlier is a potential Denial of Service (DoS) attack vector. Node.js 6.17.0 introduces server.keepAliveTimeout and the 5-second default.
problem types: CWE-400: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption / Denial of Service
affected:
{
product: Node.js
vendor: Node.js
versions:
status: affected, version: All versions prior to 6.17.0
}