CVE-2017-16129

Description

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.

Weakness classification

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

Primary references

• support@hackerone.com — Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
• support@hackerone.com — Third Party Advisory
• af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 — Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
• af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 — Third Party Advisory