GitHub Advisoryadvisory · npm

GHSA-8225-6cvr-8pqp superagent vulnerable to zip bomb attacks

MEDIUM Published 2018-08-09 Modified 2023-09-08 Official page ↗
Aliases
CVE-2017-16129
Ecosystem
npm
Packages
superagent
Severity
Moderate
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-400, CWE-409
Reviewed
2020-06-16

Affected packages

• npm superagent: < 3.7.0 → fixed in 3.7.0

Description

Affected versions of `superagent` do not check the post-decompression size of ZIP compressed HTTP responses prior to decompressing. This results in the package being vulnerable to a ZIP bomb attack, where an extremely small ZIP file becomes many orders of magnitude larger when decompressed. This may result in unrestrained CPU/Memory/Disk consumption, causing a denial of service condition. Recommendation Update to version 3.7.0 or later.

Related

Alias · CVE (1)

  • CVE-2017-16129 The HTTP client module superagent is vulnerable to ZIP bomb attacks. vulnerability

Weakness · CWE (2)

  • CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption weakness
  • CWE-409 Improper Handling of Highly Compressed Data (Data Amplification) weakness

References