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CVE-2017-16129: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

June 7, 2018 (updated October 9, 2019)

The HTTP client module superagent is vulnerable to ZIP bomb attacks. In a ZIP bomb attack, the HTTP server replies with a compressed response that becomes several magnitudes larger once uncompressed. If a client does not take special care when processing such responses, it may result in excessive CPU and/or memory consumption. An attacker might exploit such a weakness for a DoS attack. To exploit this the attacker must control the location (URL) that superagent makes a request to.

References

  • github.com/visionmedia/superagent/issues/1259
  • nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-16129

Code Behaviors & Features

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Affected versions

All versions before 3.7.0

Fixed versions

  • 3.7.0

Solution

Upgrade to version 3.7.0 or above.

Impact 5.9 MEDIUM

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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Weakness

  • CWE-400: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

Source file

npm/superagent/CVE-2017-16129.yml

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