SB2018030310 - Denial of service in https-proxy-agent
Published: March 3, 2018
Security Bulletin ID
SB2018030310
Severity
Low
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Information disclosure
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Resource exhaustion (CVE-ID: CVE-2018-3739)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to obtain potentially sensitive information or cause DoS condition on the target system.
The vulnerability exists due to improper sanitization of the auth option passed to the Buffer() constructor. A remote attacker can submit a malicious input to the auth paramete, consume excessive CPU resources and cause the service to crash or trigger memory leak to gain access to arbitrary data.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.