lite-server vulnerable to Denial of Service

Description

All versions of package lite-server are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS) when an attacker sends an HTTP request and includes control characters that the decodeURI() function is unable to parse.

Recommendation

No fix is available yet. Followings are affected versions:

• <= 2.6.1

References

• GHSA-89w7-5q45-r53w
• security.snyk.io
• CVE-2022-25940
• CWE-20
• CWE-400
• CAPEC-310
• OWASP 2021-A3
• OWASP 2021-A6

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Tags:

npm

lite-server