Unauthenticated Denial of Service in the octokit/webhooks library (GHSA-pwfr-8pq7-x9qv)

Description

Versions v9.26.0, v10.9.x), v11.1.x, v12.0.x all contained the code that would throw the error.

Specifically, during a pentest we encountered a bug in the octokit/webhooks library (a dependency of Probot, a framework for building Github Apps). The resulting request was found to cause an uncaught exception that ends the nodejs process.

Recommendation

Update the @octokit/app package to the latest compatible version. Followings are version details:

• Affected version(s): = 14.0.1
• Patched version(s): 14.0.2

References

• GHSA-pwfr-8pq7-x9qv
• CVE-2023-50728
• CWE-755
• CAPEC-310
• OWASP 2021-A6

Related Issues

• Unauthenticated Denial of Service in the octokit/webhooks library (GHSA-pwfr-8pq7-x9qv) 2 - CVE-2023-50728
• Unauthenticated Denial of Service in the octokit/webhooks library - CVE-2023-50728
• Cube API denial of service attack - CVE-2023-50709
• Regular Expression Denial of Service in moment (GHSA-87vv-r9j6-g5qv) - CVE-2016-4055

Tags:

npm

@octokit/app