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Denial of Service in https-proxy-agent

Critical severity GitHub Reviewed Published Jul 27, 2018 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Jan 9, 2023

Package

npm https-proxy-agent (npm)

Affected versions

< 2.2.0

Patched versions

2.2.0

Description

Versions of https-proxy-agent before 2.2.0 are vulnerable to denial of service. This is due to unsanitized options (proxy.auth) being passed to Buffer().

Recommendation

Update to version 2.2.0 or later.

References

Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Jul 27, 2018
Reviewed Jun 16, 2020
Last updated Jan 9, 2023

Severity

Critical
9.1
/ 10

CVSS base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
None
Availability
High
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2018-3739

GHSA ID

GHSA-8g7p-74h8-hg48

Source code

Credits

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