Denial of service in Axios NPM package



Published: 2019-05-07 | Updated: 2021-01-04
Risk Medium
Patch available YES
Number of vulnerabilities 1
CVE-ID CVE-2019-10742
CWE-ID CWE-399
Exploitation vector Network
Public exploit N/A
Vulnerable software
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Vendor axios

Security Bulletin

This security bulletin contains one medium risk vulnerability.

1) Resource management error

EUVDB-ID: #VU49252

Risk: Medium

CVSSv3.1: 6.5 [CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H/E:U/RL:O/RC:C]

CVE-ID: CVE-2019-10742

CWE-ID: CWE-399 - Resource Management Errors

Exploit availability: No

Description

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to improper management of internal resources within the application when accepting content after maxContentLength is exceeded. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted data to the application and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

Mitigation

Install updates from vendor's website.

Vulnerable software versions

axios: 0.1.0 - 0.18.0

External links

http://app.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-AXIOS-174505
http://github.com/axios/axios/issues/1098
http://github.com/axios/axios/pull/1485


Q & A

Can this vulnerability be exploited remotely?

Yes. This vulnerability can be exploited by a remote non-authenticated attacker via the Internet.

Is there known malware, which exploits this vulnerability?

No. We are not aware of malware exploiting this vulnerability.



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