CVE-2016-10703
Denial of Service in ecstatic
CVE-2016-10703 is a high vulnerability (CVSS 7.5) in Ecstatic Project Ecstatic, published December 14, 2017. No source lists public exploit code. EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 2.56%, the 85th percentile. Fixed in ecstatic 2.0.0.
A regular expression Denial of Service (DoS) vulnerability in the file lib/ecstatic.js of the ecstatic npm package, before version 2.0.0, allows a remote attacker to overload and crash a server by passing a maliciously crafted string.
Attack profile
How easy it is to exploit
- Attack vector
- Network
- Complexity
- Low
- Privileges needed
- None
- User interaction
- None
What an attacker can affect
- Confidentiality
- None
- Integrity
- None
- Availability
- High
Exploit likelihood
What each source reports
NVD Score used
A regular expression Denial of Service (DoS) vulnerability in the file lib/ecstatic.js of the ecstatic npm package, before version 2.0.0, allows a remote attacker to overload and crash a server by passing a maliciously crafted string.
- Record
CVE-2016-10703- CVSS 3.1
- 7.5 High
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H - CVSS 2.0
- 7.8 High
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C - Weakness
- CWE-20
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
CVE List No score
A regular expression Denial of Service (DoS) vulnerability in the file lib/ecstatic.js of the ecstatic npm package, before version 2.0.0, allows a remote attacker to overload and crash a server by passing a maliciously crafted string.
- Record
CVE-2016-10703- Updated
- 2026-11-02
EUVDEUVD-2017-0364 No score
A regular expression Denial of Service (DoS) vulnerability in the file lib/ecstatic.js of the ecstatic npm package, before version 2.0.0, allows a remote attacker to overload and crash a server by passing a maliciously crafted string.
- Record
EUVD-2017-0364- Updated
- 2026-11-03
GitHub AdvisoriesGHSA-pm9p-9926-w68m
Denial of Service in ecstatic
ecstatic, a simple static file server middleware, is vulnerable to denial of service. If a payload with a large number of null bytes (%00) is provided by an attacker it can crash ecstatic by running it out of memory.
Results from the original advisory
A payload of 22kB caused a lag of 1 second,
A payload of 35kB caused a lag of 3 seconds,
A payload of 86kB caused the server to crash
Recommendation
Update to version 2.0.0 or later.
- Record
GHSA-pm9p-9926-w68m- CVSS 3.1
- 7.5 High
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H - Weakness
- CWE-400
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
OSV
A regular expression Denial of Service (DoS) vulnerability in the file lib/ecstatic.js of the ecstatic npm package, before version 2.0.0, allows a remote attacker to overload and crash a server by passing a maliciously crafted string.
- Record
CVE-2016-10703- CVSS 3.1
- 7.5 High
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H - Updated
- 2026-11-02
OSVGHSA-pm9p-9926-w68m
Denial of Service in ecstatic
ecstatic, a simple static file server middleware, is vulnerable to denial of service. If a payload with a large number of null bytes (%00) is provided by an attacker it can crash ecstatic by running it out of memory.
Results from the original advisory
A payload of 22kB caused a lag of 1 second,
A payload of 35kB caused a lag of 3 seconds,
A payload of 86kB caused the server to crash
Recommendation
Update to version 2.0.0 or later.
- Record
GHSA-pm9p-9926-w68m- CVSS 3.1
- 7.5 High
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H - Weakness
- CWE-400
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
Affected products
Affected packages
| Package | Affected | Fixed |
|---|---|---|
ecstaticnpm |
before 2.0.0 | 2.0.0 |
History
| When | Changed | Sources |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-11-03 | aliases | EUVD |
| 2026-11-02 | created | CVE List, GitHub Advisories, NVD, OSV |
References
checkmarx.com/advisories/denial-of-service-dos-vulnerability-in-ecstatic-npm-package
github.com/jfhbrook/node-ecstatic/commit/71ce93988ead4b561a8592168c72143907189f01
advisory.checkmarx.net/advisory/CX-2016-4450
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-10703
npmjs.com/advisories/553