Denial of Service in http-proxy-agent

published 2019-06-11 7y ago modified 2023-04-11 3y ago

cvss: —; not scored
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: —; no score, EPSS covers CVEs only
public exploits: 0; none known

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.

Patch / fix

fixed in 1

npm http-proxy-agent 2.1.0

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Affected packages

ecosystem	package	affected	fixed in
npm	http-proxy-agent	<2.1.0	2.1.0

Classification

Weakness

CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

References

Sources

GitHub Advisory GHSA-8w57-jfpm-945m

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