VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2018-3739

CVSS score9.1 CRITICAL
EPSS probability1.74%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2018-06-07
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H

Description

https-proxy-agent before 2.1.1 passes auth option to the Buffer constructor without proper sanitization, resulting in DoS and uninitialized memory leak in setups where an attacker could submit typed input to the 'auth' parameter (e.g. JSON).

Weakness classification

  • CWE-125: Out-of-bounds Read
  • CWE-400: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

Primary references