#VU24842 Resource exhaustion in strapi
Published: February 3, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU24842
Vulnerability risk: Medium
CVSSv4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green
CVE-ID: N/A
CWE-ID: CWE-400
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerable software:
strapi
strapi
Software vendor:
strapi.io
strapi.io
Description
The vulnerability allows a remote user to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to the sanitisation regex in "installPlugin" and "uninstallPlugin" handler functions for the admin panel allows the dash - character. A remote administrator can pass valid arguments like -h, -v, --help which will be passed to "execa()" and restart a server.
Remediation
Install updates from vendor's website.