Resource exhaustion in es5-ext - CVE-2024-27088
Published: April 10, 2024
Vulnerability identifier: #VU88394
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2024-27088
CWE-ID: CWE-400
Exploitation vector: Local access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: medikoo
Affected software:
es5-ext
es5-ext
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a local privileged user to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to application does not properly control consumption of internal resources. A local privileged user can pass functions with very long names or complex default argument names into `function#copy` or `function#toStringTokens` and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
How to mitigate CVE-2024-27088
Install updates from vendor's website.