cve/2017/CVE-2017-16136.md

### [CVE-2017-16136](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-16136)
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### Description

method-override is a module used by the Express.js framework to let you use HTTP verbs such as PUT or DELETE in places where the client doesn't support it. method-override is vulnerable to a regular expression denial of service vulnerability when specially crafted input is passed in to be parsed via the X-HTTP-Method-Override header.

### POC

#### Reference
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#### Github
- https://github.com/ARPSyndicate/cvemon
- https://github.com/ossf-cve-benchmark/CVE-2017-16136