Vulnerability Details CVE-2025-59465
A malformed `HTTP/2 HEADERS` frame with oversized, invalid `HPACK` data can cause Node.js to crash by triggering an unhandled `TLSSocket` error `ECONNRESET`. Instead of safely closing the connection, the process crashes, enabling a remote denial of service. This primarily affects applications that do not attach explicit error handlers to secure sockets, for example:
```
server.on('secureConnection', socket => {
socket.on('error', err => {
console.log(err)
})
})
```
Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score
EPSS Score 0.001
EPSS Ranking 19.7%
CVSS Severity
CVSS v3 Score 7.5
Products affected by CVE-2025-59465
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cpe:2.3:a:nodejs:node.js:*
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cpe:2.3:a:nodejs:node.js:20.4.0
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cpe:2.3:a:nodejs:node.js:20.5.1
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cpe:2.3:a:nodejs:node.js:20.6.0
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cpe:2.3:a:nodejs:node.js:20.6.1
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cpe:2.3:a:nodejs:node.js:20.7.0
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cpe:2.3:a:nodejs:node.js:20.8.0
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cpe:2.3:a:nodejs:node.js:20.8.1
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cpe:2.3:a:nodejs:node.js:22.2.0
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cpe:2.3:a:nodejs:node.js:22.3.0
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cpe:2.3:a:nodejs:node.js:22.4.1
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cpe:2.3:a:nodejs:node.js:22.5.0
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cpe:2.3:a:nodejs:node.js:22.5.1
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cpe:2.3:a:nodejs:node.js:22.6.0
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cpe:2.3:a:nodejs:node.js:22.7.0
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cpe:2.3:a:nodejs:node.js:24.4.0
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cpe:2.3:a:nodejs:node.js:24.4.1
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cpe:2.3:a:nodejs:node.js:24.5.0