CVE-2025-59465
Vulnerability Summary
Timeline
Description
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) }) }) ```
CVSS Metrics
- v3.1•HIGH•Score: 7.5CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- v3.0•HIGH•Score: 7.5CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS Trends
Current EPSS score: 3.78%• Percentile: 89%
Techniques & Countermeasures
- CWE-400•Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
The product does not properly control the allocation and maintenance of a limited resource.
- CWE-248•Uncaught Exception
An exception is thrown from a function, but it is not caught.
Affected Systems
- nodejs•node
20.19.6 | 22.21.1 | 24.12.0 | 25.2.1 | ≥ 4.0, < 4.* | ≥ 5.0, < 5.* | ≥ 6.0, < 6.* | ≥ 7.0, < 7.* | ≥ 8.0, < 8.* | ≥ 9.0, < 9.* | ≥ 10.0, < 10.* | ≥ 11.0, < 11.* | ≥ 12.0, < 12.* | ≥ 13.0, < 13.* | ≥ 14.0, < 14.* | ≥ 15.0, < 15.* | ≥ 16.0, < 16.* | ≥ 17.0, < 17.* | ≥ 18.0, < 18.*
- nodejs•node.js
≥ 20.0.0, < 20.20.0 | ≥ 22.0.0, < 22.22.0 | ≥ 24.0.0, < 24.13.0 | ≥ 25.0.0, < 25.3.0
References (20)
- https://nodejs.org/en/blog/vulnerability/december-2025-security-releases
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-59465
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2431349
- https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2025/cve-2025-59465.json
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:2899
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:1843
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:1842
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:2422
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:2421
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:2420
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:2768
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:2767
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:2864
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:2783
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:2782
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:2781
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:7386
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:7387
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:6402
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:6431