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ubuntu-cve-2017-16129

Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu

Published

2018-06-07 02:29

Modified

2025-10-24 04:46

Summary

Details

The HTTP client module superagent is vulnerable to ZIP bomb attacks. In a ZIP bomb attack, the HTTP server replies with a compressed response that becomes several magnitudes larger once uncompressed. If a client does not take special care when processing such responses, it may result in excessive CPU and/or memory consumption. An attacker might exploit such a weakness for a DoS attack. To exploit this the attacker must control the location (URL) that superagent makes a request to.

Severity

5.9 (Medium)


                    
                      CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

N/A (UNKNOWN)


                    
                      medium

References

URL

Type

	https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-16129	REPORT
	https://github.com/visionmedia/superagent/issues/1259	REPORT
	https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/479	REPORT
	https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-16129	REPORT

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CVE-2017-16129 (GCVE-0-2017-16129)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2018-06-07 02:00 – Updated: 2024-09-16 19:04

Summary

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

CWE-409 - Improper Handling of Highly Compressed Data (Data Amplification) (CWE-409)

Assigner

hackerone mitre root

References

2 references

URL	Tags
https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/479	x_refsource_MISC
https://github.com/visionmedia/superagent/issues/1259	x_refsource_MISC

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
HackerOne	superagent node module	Affected: <3.7.0

Date Public

2018-04-26 00:00

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