SB2019052410 - Resource exhaustion in useragent package for NPM
Published: May 24, 2019
Security Bulletin ID
SB2019052410
Severity
Medium
Patch available
NO
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Denial of service
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Resource exhaustion (CVE-ID: N/A)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to regular expression when passing long user-agent strings. A remote attacker can trigger resource exhaustion and perform a regular expression denial of service (ReDoS) attack.
Remediation
Cybersecurity Help is not aware of any official remediation provided by the vendor.