GHSA-8225-6cvr-8pqpMediumCVSS 5.9

superagent vulnerable to zip bomb attacks

Published
August 9, 2018
Last Modified
September 8, 2023

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

📋 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.

🎯 Affected products1

  • npm/superagent:< 3.7.0

🔗 References (5)