Denial of Service in subtext
High severity
GitHub Reviewed
Published
Sep 3, 2020
to the GitHub Advisory Database
•
Updated Jan 9, 2023
Description
Reviewed
Aug 31, 2020
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database
Sep 3, 2020
Last updated
Jan 9, 2023
Versions of
subtext
>=4.1.0 are vulnerable to Denial of Service. The Content-Encoding HTTP header parser has a vulnerability which will cause the function to throw a system error if the header contains some invalid values. Because hapi rethrows system errors (as opposed to catching expected application errors), the error is thrown all the way up the stack. If no unhandled exception handler is available, the application will exist, allowing an attacker to shut down services.Recommendation
This package is deprecated and is now maintained as
@hapi/subtext
. Please update your dependencies to use@hapi/subtext
.References