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.
The product does not handle or incorrectly handles a compressed input with a very high compression ratio that produces a large output.
The product does not properly control the allocation and maintenance of a limited resource.
| Link | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/479 | third party advisory |
| https://github.com/visionmedia/superagent/issues/1259 | patch third party advisory issue tracking |