I went ahead and requested a CVE:

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> Subject: Re: CVE Request: Node.js HTTP Pipelining DoS
> Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2013 22:25:52 -0600
> From: Kurt Seifried <kseifried@redhat com>
> Reply-To: [email protected]
> Organization: Red Hat Inc.
> To: [email protected]
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> On 10/19/2013 09:43 AM, Jonathan Rudenberg wrote:
> > Node.js is vulnerable to DoS when a client sends too many pipelined
> > HTTP requests.
> > 
> > Links:
> > 
> > https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/nodejs/NEbweYB0ei0 
> > http://blog.nodejs.org/2013/10/18/node-v0-10-21-stable/ 
> > http://blog.nodejs.org/2013/10/18/node-v0-8-26-maintenance/ 
> > https://github.com/joyent/node/issues/6214 
> > 
> https://github.com/joyent/node/commit/085dd30e93da67362f044ad1b3b6b2d997064692
> >
> >  This issue affects all versions of Node released before 0.10.21
> > and 0.8.26.
> > 
>
> So my first reply bounced off the list (hopefully this one does not).
>
> Please use CVE-2013-4450 for this issue.
>
> As for shipping a security update with "no details" in order to
> protect people this doesn't work very well when you're open source and
> leave the keyword in the source code where the fix is and add comments
> that give all the details.
>
> You might as well release details in the advisory so that the god guys
> can quickly assess the issue and deal with it properly, rather then
> pretending that the bad guys can't read the source code and figure out
> how to exploit this. It took me literally all of five minutes to
> download the current version, the previous version minus one, diff
> them, and look for the keyword "piplined" (what can I say, I was
> eating a sandwich and only had one hand free ;).
>
> - -- 
> Kurt Seifried Red Hat Security Response Team (SRT)
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