GitHub Advisoryadvisory · npm
GHSA-jjv7-qpx3-h62q Denial-of-Service Memory Exhaustion in qs
HIGH
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- Aliases
- CVE-2014-7191
- Ecosystem
- npm
- Packages
- qs
- Severity
- High
- Weaknesses
- CWE-400
- Reviewed
- 2020-06-16
Affected packages
• npm qs: < 1.0.0 → fixed in 1.0.0
Description
Versions prior to 1.0 of `qs` are affected by a denial of service condition. This condition is triggered by parsing a crafted string that deserializes into very large sparse arrays, resulting in the process running out of memory and eventually crashing.
Recommendation
Update to version 1.0.0 or later.
Related
Alias · CVE (1)
- CVE-2014-7191 The qs module before 1.0.0 in Node.js does not call the compact function for array data, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of… vulnerability
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption weakness
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-7191 advisory
- https://github.com/visionmedia/node-querystring/issues/104 web
- https://github.com/raymondfeng/node-querystring/commit/43a604b7847e56bba49d0ce3e222fe89569354d8 web
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:1380 web
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/96729 web
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-jjv7-qpx3-h62q advisory
- https://github.com/visionmedia/node-querystring package
- https://www.npmjs.com/advisories/29 web
- http://secunia.com/advisories/60026 web
- http://secunia.com/advisories/62170 web
- http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21685987 web
- http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21687263 web
- http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21687928 web