What is GHSA-8w57-jfpm-945m?

GHSA-8w57-jfpm-945m is a security advisory published by GitHub Security Advisories with High severity. Denial of Service in http-proxy-agent

Why does GHSA-8w57-jfpm-945m have no CVE ID yet?

GitHub Security Advisories published this advisory directly to customers before NVD assigned a CVE ID. This is the embargo-window disclosure pattern — vendors notify customers on day 0; NVD's public record follows days to weeks later.

Which products are affected by GHSA-8w57-jfpm-945m?

GHSA-8w57-jfpm-945m affects 1 product, including: npm/http-proxy-agent:\u003c 2.1.0.

GHSA-8w57-jfpm-945mHighDisclosed before NVD

Denial of Service in http-proxy-agent

Vendor

GitHub Security Advisories

Published

June 11, 2019

Last Modified

April 11, 2023

📋 Description

Versions of http-proxy-agent before 2.1.0 are vulnerable to denial of service and uninitialized memory leak when unsanitized options are passed to Buffer. An attacker may leverage these unsanitized options to consume system resources.

Recommendation

Update to version 2.1.0 or later.

🎯 Affected products1

npm/http-proxy-agent:< 2.1.0

🔗 References (4)

https://hackerone.com/reports/321631
https://github.com/TooTallNate/node-http-proxy-agent/blob/2.0.0/index.js#L80
https://www.npmjs.com/advisories/607
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-8w57-jfpm-945m