CVEvulnerability
CVE-2022-36313
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2022-07-21
- Last modified
- 2026-10-07
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 3.1 (134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-835
Description
An issue was discovered in the file-type package before 16.5.4 and 17.x before 17.1.3 for Node.js. A malformed MKV file could cause the file type detector to get caught in an infinite loop. This would make the application become unresponsive and could be used to cause a DoS attack.
Affected configurations
• sindresorhus file-type (< 16.5.4)
• sindresorhus file-type (>= 17.0.0 < 17.1.3)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-835 Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition weakness
References
- https://github.com/sindresorhus/file-type/releases/tag/v16.5.4 Release Notes, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/sindresorhus/file-type/releases/tag/v17.1.3 Release Notes, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20220909-0005/ Third Party Advisory
- https://www.npmjs.com/package/file-type Product, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/sindresorhus/file-type/releases/tag/v16.5.4 Release Notes, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/sindresorhus/file-type/releases/tag/v17.1.3 Release Notes, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20220909-0005/ Third Party Advisory
- https://www.npmjs.com/package/file-type Product, Third Party Advisory