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CVE-2019-15604 — Improper Certificate Validation in Node

Improper Certificate Validation in Node.js 10, 12, and 13 causes the process to abort when sending a crafted X.509 certificate

CVSS

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EPSS

3.53% (top 12.50%)

CWE

CWE-295

Published

2020-02-07T14:57:07.000Z

Last modified

2025-04-30T22:24:22.492Z

CVSS vector

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01What is this vulnerability?

Improper Certificate Validation in Node.js 10, 12, and 13 causes the process to abort when sending a crafted X.509 certificate

Vendor	Product	Versions
NodeJS	Node	4.0, 5.0, 6.0, 7.0, 8.0, 9.0, 10.0, 11.0, 12.0, 13.0

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

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No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

access.redhat.com — https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0573
access.redhat.com — https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0579
access.redhat.com — https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0597
access.redhat.com — https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0598
access.redhat.com — https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0602
lists.opensuse.org — http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-03/msg00008.html
security.gentoo.org — https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202003-48
www.debian.org — https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4669
www.oracle.com — https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2020.html
www.oracle.com — https://www.oracle.com//security-alerts/cpujul2021.html
hackerone.com — https://hackerone.com/reports/746733
nodejs.org — https://nodejs.org/en/blog/release/v13.8.0/
nodejs.org — https://nodejs.org/en/blog/vulnerability/february-2020-security-releases/
nodejs.org — https://nodejs.org/en/blog/release/v10.19.0/
nodejs.org — https://nodejs.org/en/blog/release/v12.15.0/
security.netapp.com — https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200221-0004/

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