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CVE-2018-7166

7.5 high SSVC exploitation: none Modified

In all versions of Node.js 10 prior to 10.9.0, an argument processing flaw can cause `Buffer.alloc()` to return uninitialized memory. This method is intended to be safe and only return initialized, or cleared, memory. The third argument specifying `encoding` can be passed as a number, this is misinterpreted by `Buffer's` internal "fill" method as the `start` to a fill operation. This flaw may be abused where `Buffer.alloc()` arguments are derived from user input to return uncleared memory blocks that may contain sensitive information.

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Patch, vendor advisory and mitigation references on NVD 2

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Change history 1

  1. First seenCVSS 7.5 · nodejsNVD modified 2026-10-08 22:16

Affected (CPE criteria) 1

  • cpe:2.3:a:nodejs:node.js:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References 4