GitHub Advisoryadvisory · npm

GHSA-5854-jvxx-2cg9 Denial of Service in content

HIGH Published 2020-09-03 Modified 2025-09-29 Official page ↗
Ecosystem
npm
Packages
content
Severity
High
Reviewed
2020-08-31

Affected packages

• npm content: <= 4.0.6 (no fix yet)

Description

Versions of `content` are vulnerable to Denial of Service. The Content-Encoding HTTP header parser has a vulnerability which will cause the function to throw a system error if the header contains some invalid values. Because hapi rethrows system errors (as opposed to catching expected application errors), the error is thrown all the way up the stack. If no unhandled exception handler is available, the application will exist, allowing an attacker to shut down services. Recommendation This package is deprecated and is now maintained as `@hapi/content`. Please update your dependencies to use `@hapi/content`.

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