CVE-2017-16129

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
Jun 7, 2018
Updated
Sep 16, 2024
Reserved
Oct 29, 2017

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Description

The HTTP client module superagent is vulnerable to ZIP bomb attacks. In a ZIP bomb attack, the HTTP server replies with a compressed response that becomes several magnitudes larger once uncompressed. If a client does not take special care when processing such responses, it may result in excessive CPU and/or memory consumption. An attacker might exploit such a weakness for a DoS attack. To exploit this the attacker must control the location (URL) that superagent makes a request to.

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

  • CWE-409 Improper Handling of Highly Compressed Data (Data Amplification) (CWE-409)

Affected Products

ProductVersions
superagent node moduleHackerOne
  • <3.7.0Affected

References

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