CVE-2022-39288
Denial of service in Fastify via Content-Type header
- State
- Published
- Severity
- 7.5 High
- Published
- Oct 10, 2022
- Updated
- Apr 23, 2025
- Reserved
- Sep 2, 2022
Description
fastify is a fast and low overhead web framework, for Node.js. Affected versions of fastify are subject to a denial of service via malicious use of the Content-Type header. An attacker can send an invalid Content-Type header that can cause the application to crash. This issue has been addressed in commit `fbb07e8d` and will be included in release version 4.8.1. Users are advised to upgrade. Users unable to upgrade may manually filter out http content with malicious Content-Type headers.
Scores
| CVSS | Score | Vector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.1 | 7.5 High | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H | GitHub_M |
Weaknesses
- CWE-754 Improper Check for Unusual or Exceptional Conditions
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
fastifyfastify |
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References
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