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Denial of Service in http-proxy-agent

High severity GitHub Reviewed Published Jun 11, 2019 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Apr 11, 2023

Package

npm http-proxy-agent (npm)

Affected versions

< 2.1.0

Patched versions

2.1.0

Description

Versions of http-proxy-agent before 2.1.0 are vulnerable to denial of service and uninitialized memory leak when unsanitized options are passed to Buffer. An attacker may leverage these unsanitized options to consume system resources.

Recommendation

Update to version 2.1.0 or later.

References

Reviewed Jun 11, 2019
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Jun 11, 2019
Last updated Apr 11, 2023

Severity

High

EPSS score

Weaknesses

Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

The product does not properly control the allocation and maintenance of a limited resource, thereby enabling an actor to influence the amount of resources consumed, eventually leading to the exhaustion of available resources. Learn more on MITRE.

CVE ID

No known CVE

GHSA ID

GHSA-8w57-jfpm-945m

Source code

No known source code
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