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medium 5.9

CVE-2017-16129 json

superagent vulnerable to zip bomb attacks

published 2018-06-07 8 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-8225-6cvr-8pqp , EUVD-2018-0378

cvss
5.9
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.7%
EPSS 1.7% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 77%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • npm superagent 3.7.0
  • superagent_project superagent 3.7.0
  • node-superagent Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 0.20.0+dfsg-2

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2017-16129

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2017-16129 updated cvss 4.7

nodejs-superagent: Resource exhaustion via HTTP server compressed replies

  • Red Hat All currently supported Red Hat products
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

1.74% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 77% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 5.9 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 2.0 7.1 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
GitHub 3.0 5.9 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
npm superagent
<3.7.0
3.7.0

Affected products

  • HackerOne superagent node module

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-409 Improper Handling of Highly Compressed Data (Data Amplification)
  • CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

References

Sources

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