CPANSA-Git-XS-2018-12121-http-parser: Git-XS vulnerability

Publisher giterlizzi Document category csaf_security_advisory
Initial release date 2018-11-28T00:00:00 Engine CSAF Perl Toolkit 0.25
Current release date 2018-11-28T00:00:00 Build Date
Current version 1 Status final
CVSS v3.1 Base Score 7.5 Severity High
Original language Language en
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Vulnerability Description

Denial of Service with large HTTP headers by using a combination of many requests with maximum sized headers (almost 80 KB per connection), and carefully timed completion of the headers, it is possible to cause the HTTP server to abort from heap allocation failure. Attack potential is mitigated by the use of a load balancer or other proxy layer.

Vulnerabilities

CVE-2018-12121

Vulnerability Description

Node.js: All versions prior to Node.js 6.15.0, 8.14.0, 10.14.0 and 11.3.0: Denial of Service with large HTTP headers: By using a combination of many requests with maximum sized headers (almost 80 KB per connection), and carefully timed completion of the headers, it is possible to cause the HTTP server to abort from heap allocation failure. Attack potential is mitigated by the use of a load balancer or other proxy layer.

Weakness CWE-400 : Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

Product status

Known affected
Product Score
Git-XS greater than or equal 0.17 and less than or equal 0.88
CVSS Version CVSS Vector CVSS Base Score CVSS Base Severity
3.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H 7.5 High
2.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P 5.0 Medium

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References

Revision history

Version Date of the revision Summary of the revision
1 Wed Nov 28 00:00:00 2018 First release

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