Denial of Service in nes

Description

Affected versions of nes are vulnerable to denial of service when given an invalid cookie header, and websocket authentication is set to cookie. Submitting an invalid cookie on the websocket upgrade request will cause the node process to throw and exit.

Recommendation

Update the nes package to the latest compatible version. Followings are version details:

• Affected version(s): <= 6.4.0
• Patched version(s): 6.4.1

References

• GHSA-3pwh-5mmc-mwrx
• www.npmjs.com
• CVE-2017-16025
• CWE-400
• CAPEC-310
• OWASP 2021-A6

Related Issues

• Regular Expression Denial of Service in debug - CVE-2017-16137
• Regular Expression Denial of Service in content - CVE-2017-16111
• mime Regular Expression Denial of Service when MIME lookup performed on untrusted user input - CVE-2017-16138
• Regular Expression Denial of Service in decamelize - CVE-2017-16023

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Tags:

npm

nes