rendertron can remotely shut down Chrome instance

Description

Rendertron 1.0.0 includes an _ah/stop route to shutdown the Chrome instance responsible for serving render requests to all users. Visiting this route with a GET request allows any unauthorized remote attacker to disable the core service of the application.

Recommendation

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

• Affected version(s): < 1.1.0
• Patched version(s): 1.1.0

References

• GHSA-4q69-q4q7-x82c
• bugs.chromium.org
• CVE-2017-18353
• CWE-284
• CAPEC-310
• OWASP 2021-A1
• OWASP 2021-A6

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Tags:

npm

rendertron