medium5.9
CVE-2017-16129
The HTTP client module superagent is vulnerable to ZIP bomb attacks.
Impact
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.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions |
|---|---|---|
| Superagent Project | Superagent | before 3.7.0 |