CVEvulnerability

CVE-2020-8277

7.5 HIGH Published 2020-11-19 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2020-11-19
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-400

Description

A Node.js application that allows an attacker to trigger a DNS request for a host of their choice could trigger a Denial of Service in versions < 15.2.1, < 14.15.1, and < 12.19.1 by getting the application to resolve a DNS record with a larger number of responses. This is fixed in 15.2.1, 14.15.1, and 12.19.1.

Affected configurations

• nodejs node.js (>= 12.16.3 < 12.19.1) • nodejs node.js (>= 14.13.0 < 14.15.1) • nodejs node.js (>= 15.0.0 < 15.2.1) • fedoraproject fedora 32 • fedoraproject fedora 33 • oracle blockchain platform (< 21.1.2) • oracle graalvm 19.3.4 • oracle graalvm 20.3.0 • oracle jd edwards enterpriseone tools (< 9.2.6.0) • oracle mysql cluster (<= 8.0.23) • oracle retail xstore point of service 16.0.6 • oracle retail xstore point of service 17.0.4 • oracle retail xstore point of service 18.0.3 • oracle retail xstore point of service 19.0.2 • c-ares project c-ares (< 1.16.0)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption weakness

References