What is GHSA-fvwr-h9xh-m6wc?

GHSA-fvwr-h9xh-m6wc is a security advisory published by GitHub Security Advisories with High severity. Denial of Service in @commercial/subtext

Why does GHSA-fvwr-h9xh-m6wc 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-fvwr-h9xh-m6wc?

GHSA-fvwr-h9xh-m6wc affects 1 product, including: npm/@commercial/subtext:\u003c 5.1.1.

GHSA-fvwr-h9xh-m6wcHighDisclosed before NVD

Denial of Service in @commercial/subtext

Vendor

GitHub Security Advisories

Published

September 3, 2020

Last Modified

April 11, 2023

📋 Description

Versions of @commercial/subtext prior to 5.1.1 are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS). The package fails to enforce the maxBytes configuration for payloads with chunked encoding that are written to the file system. This allows attackers to send requests with arbitrary payload sizes, which may exhaust system resources leading to Denial of Service.

Recommendation

Upgrade to version 5.1.1 or later.

🎯 Affected products1

npm/@commercial/subtext:< 5.1.1

🔗 References (3)

https://github.com/hapijs/subtext/issues/72
https://www.npmjs.com/advisories/1166
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-fvwr-h9xh-m6wc