CVE-2024-21536

high

Description

Versions of the package http-proxy-middleware before 2.0.7, from 3.0.0 and before 3.0.3 are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS) due to an UnhandledPromiseRejection error thrown by micromatch. An attacker could kill the Node.js process and crash the server by making requests to certain paths.

References

https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-HTTPPROXYMIDDLEWARE-8229906

https://github.com/chimurai/http-proxy-middleware/commit/788b21e4aff38332d6319557d4a5b1b13b1f9a22

https://github.com/chimurai/http-proxy-middleware/commit/0b4274e8cc9e9a2c5a06f35fbf456ccfcebc55a5

https://gist.github.com/mhassan1/28be67266d82a53708ed59ce5dc3c94a

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2024-10-19

Updated: 2024-11-01

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: High