Input validation error in Tough-cookie - CVE-2016-1000232
Published: February 27, 2024
Vulnerability identifier: #VU86832
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2016-1000232
CWE-ID: CWE-20
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to the regular expression parsing flaw in HTTP request cookie header parsing. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted input to the application and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
Affected software
Tough-cookie
IBM Watson Machine Learning Accelerator
Fedora
nodejs-tough-cookie
rh-nodejs4-nodejs-tough-cookie (Red Hat package)
IBM Watson Machine Learning Accelerator
Fedora
nodejs-tough-cookie
rh-nodejs4-nodejs-tough-cookie (Red Hat package)
How to mitigate CVE-2016-1000232
Install updates from vendor's website.
Tough-cookie - update to 2.3.0
nodejs-tough-cookie - addressed in versions 2.3.1-1.fc23, 2.3.1-1.fc24
rh-nodejs4-nodejs-tough-cookie (Red Hat package) - addressed in versions 2.3.3-2.el6, 2.3.3-2.el7
nodejs-tough-cookie - addressed in versions 2.3.1-1.fc23, 2.3.1-1.fc24
rh-nodejs4-nodejs-tough-cookie (Red Hat package) - addressed in versions 2.3.3-2.el6, 2.3.3-2.el7
External References
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:2101
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2912
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2016-1000232
- https://github.com/salesforce/tough-cookie/commit/615627206357d997d5e6ff9da158997de05235ae
- https://github.com/salesforce/tough-cookie/commit/e4fc2e0f9ee1b7a818d68f0ac7ea696f377b1534
- https://www.ibm.com/blogs/psirt/ibm-security-bulletin-ibm-api-connect-is-affected-by-node-js-tough-cookie-module-vulnerability-to-a-denial-of-service-cve-2016-1000232/
- https://www.npmjs.com/advisories/130