CVE-2021-22883

At a glance

Severity: Not available
EPSS: EPSS 77.39 % · percentile 100 (2026-10-27)
State: PUBLISHED
Published: 2021-03-03
Updated: 2025-04-30
Assigner: hackerone
NVD status: Modified

Description

Node.js before 10.24.0, 12.21.0, 14.16.0, and 15.10.0 is vulnerable to a denial of service attack when too many connection attempts with an 'unknownProtocol' are established. This leads to a leak of file descriptors. If a file descriptor limit is configured on the system, then the server is unable to accept new connections and prevent the process also from opening, e.g. a file. If no file descriptor limit is configured, then this lead to an excessive memory usage and cause the system to run out of memory.

Scores

Version	Score	Vector	Scored by
CVSS 3.1	HIGH 7.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H	NVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)
CVSS 2.0	HIGH 7.8	AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C	NVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

Weaknesses (CWE)

European references

ENISA EUVD · EUVD-2021-10016
GCVE · GCVE-0-2021-22883

CERT-FR advisories

CERTFR-2022-AVI-216 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans les produits Siemens · cert.ssi.gouv.fr
CERTFR-2021-AVI-490 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans IBM Spectrum Protect · cert.ssi.gouv.fr
CERTFR-2021-AVI-395 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans IBM Spectrum Control · cert.ssi.gouv.fr

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

cpe:2.3:a:nodejs:node.js:*:*:*:*:lts:*:*:* ≥ 10.0.0 < 10.24.0
cpe:2.3:a:nodejs:node.js:*:*:*:*:lts:*:*:* ≥ 12.0.0 < 12.21.0
cpe:2.3:a:nodejs:node.js:*:*:*:*:lts:*:*:* ≥ 14.0.0 < 14.16.0
cpe:2.3:a:nodejs:node.js:*:*:*:*:-:*:*:* ≥ 15.0.0 < 15.10.0
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:32:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:33:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:34:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:netapp:e-series_performance_analyzer:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:oracle:graalvm:19.3.5:*:*:*:enterprise:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:oracle:graalvm:20.3.1.2:*:*:*:enterprise:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:oracle:graalvm:21.0.0.2:*:*:*:enterprise:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:oracle:jd_edwards_enterpriseone_tools:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* < 9.2.6.0
cpe:2.3:a:oracle:mysql_cluster:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* ≤ 8.0.25
cpe:2.3:a:oracle:nosql_database:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* < 20.3
cpe:2.3:a:oracle:peoplesoft_enterprise_peopletools:8.58:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:oracle:peoplesoft_enterprise_peopletools:8.59:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:siemens:sinec_infrastructure_network_services:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* < 1.0.1.1

Affected products

Product	Versions
NodeJS · Node	affected 4.0 < 4.* ; affected 5.0 < 5.* ; affected 6.0 < 6.* ; affected 7.0 < 7.* ; affected 8.0 < 8.* ; affected 9.0 < 9.*

References

Sources

Source	Licence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)	CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)	FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVD	ENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)	Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feeds	Public domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD