CVE-2019-5739

Upstream information

CVE-2019-5739 at MITRE

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.

---

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Does not affect SUSE products

CVSS v2 Scores

	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	5
Vector	AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Access Vector	Network
Access Complexity	Low
Authentication	None
Confidentiality Impact	None
Integrity Impact	None
Availability Impact	Partial

CVSS v3 Scores

	National Vulnerability Database	SUSE
Base Score	7.5	5.3
Vector	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Attack Vector	Network	Network
Attack Complexity	Low	Low
Privileges Required	None	None
User Interaction	None	None
Scope	Unchanged	Unchanged
Confidentiality Impact	None	None
Integrity Impact	None	None
Availability Impact	High	Low
CVSSv3 Version	3	3

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 1127533 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

• SUSE-SU-2019:0658-1, published Wed Mar 20 10:37:52 MDT 2019
• SUSE-SU-2019:0818-1, published Fri Mar 29 17:13:00 MDT 2019
• openSUSE-SU-2019:1076-1, published Fri Dec 8 15:49:00 2023
• openSUSE-SU-2019:1173-1, published Fri Dec 8 15:48:26 2023

List of released packages

Product(s)	Fixed package version(s)	References
SUSE Enterprise Storage 4	nodejs4 >= 4.9.1-15.20.1 nodejs6 >= 6.17.0-11.24.1	Patchnames: SUSE-Storage-4-2019-658 SUSE-Storage-4-2019-818
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12 SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Web and Scripting 12 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP4 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP3 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP4 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP5	nodejs4 >= 4.9.1-15.20.1 nodejs4-devel >= 4.9.1-15.20.1 nodejs4-docs >= 4.9.1-15.20.1 nodejs6 >= 6.17.0-11.24.1 nodejs6-devel >= 6.17.0-11.24.1 nodejs6-docs >= 6.17.0-11.24.1 npm4 >= 4.9.1-15.20.1 npm6 >= 6.17.0-11.24.1	Patchnames: SUSE-SLE-Module-Web-Scripting-12-2019-658 SUSE-SLE-Module-Web-Scripting-12-2019-818
SUSE OpenStack Cloud 7	nodejs6 >= 6.17.0-11.24.1	Patchnames: SUSE-OpenStack-Cloud-7-2019-818
SUSE OpenStack Cloud Crowbar 8	nodejs6 >= 6.17.0-11.24.1	Patchnames: SUSE-OpenStack-Cloud-Crowbar-8-2019-818

---

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Fri Mar 1 21:36:42 2019
CVE page last modified: Tue Jul 1 12:45:18 2025