SB2024112825 - Remote denial of service in http-proxy-middleware
Published: November 28, 2024
Security Bulletin ID
SB2024112825
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 security vulnerability.
1) Improper error handling (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-21536)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to an UnhandledPromiseRejection error thrown by micromatch. A remote non-authenticated attacker can send specially crafted request to the application and crash the Node.js process.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.
References
- https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-HTTPPROXYMIDDLEWARE-8229906
- https://gist.github.com/mhassan1/28be67266d82a53708ed59ce5dc3c94a
- https://github.com/chimurai/http-proxy-middleware/commit/788b21e4aff38332d6319557d4a5b1b13b1f9a22
- https://github.com/chimurai/http-proxy-middleware/commit/0b4274e8cc9e9a2c5a06f35fbf456ccfcebc55a5