SB2019091620 - Resource exhaustion in Hapi.js subtext
Published: September 16, 2019 Updated: January 6, 2020
Security Bulletin ID
SB2019091620
CSH Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
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 vulnerability.
1) Resource exhaustion (CVE-ID: N/A)
CWE-ID: CWE-400 - Resource exhaustion
CVSSv4: 8.7 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to the package fails to enforce the "maxBytes" configuration for payloads with chunked encoding that are written to the file system. A remote attacker can send requests with arbitrary payload sizes,trigger resource exhaustion and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.