SB2023053112 - Denial of service in cookiejar
Published: May 31, 2023
Security Bulletin ID
SB2023053112
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) Inefficient regular expression complexity (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-25901)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient input validation when processing untrusted input with a regular expressions within the Cookie.parse function. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted data to the application and perform regular expression denial of service (ReDos) attack.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.
References
- https://github.com/bmeck/node-cookiejar/pull/39/commits/eaa00021caf6ae09449dde826108153b578348e5
- https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-COOKIEJAR-3149984
- https://github.com/bmeck/node-cookiejar/pull/39
- https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JAVA-ORGWEBJARSNPM-3176681
- https://github.com/bmeck/node-cookiejar/blob/master/cookiejar.js%23L73