Security
Headlines
HeadlinesLatestCVEs

Headline

GHSA-r6ch-mqf9-qc9w: Regular Expression Denial of Service in Headers

Impact

The Headers.set() and Headers.append() methods are vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) attacks when untrusted values are passed into the functions. This is due to the inefficient regular expression used to normalize the values in the headerValueNormalize() utility function.

Patches

This vulnerability was patched in v5.19.1.

Workarounds

There is no workaround. Please update to an unaffected version.

References

  • https://hackerone.com/bugs?report_id=1784449

Credits

Carter Snook reported this vulnerability.

ghsa
#vulnerability#dos#nodejs#js#git

Package

npm undici (npm)

Affected versions

< 5.19.1

Patched versions

5.19.1

Description

Impact

The Headers.set() and Headers.append() methods are vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) attacks when untrusted values are passed into the functions. This is due to the inefficient regular expression used to normalize the values in the headerValueNormalize() utility function.

Patches

This vulnerability was patched in v5.19.1.

Workarounds

There is no workaround. Please update to an unaffected version.

References

  • https://hackerone.com/bugs?report_id=1784449

Credits

Carter Snook reported this vulnerability.

References

  • GHSA-r6ch-mqf9-qc9w
  • https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-24807
  • nodejs/undici@f2324e5
  • https://github.com/nodejs/undici/releases/tag/v5.19.1
  • https://hackerone.com/bugs?report_id=1784449

mcollina published to nodejs/undici

Feb 16, 2023

Published by the National Vulnerability Database

Feb 16, 2023

Published to the GitHub Advisory Database

Feb 16, 2023

Reviewed

Feb 16, 2023

Last updated

Feb 16, 2023

Related news

CVE-2023-38735: Security Bulletin: IBM Cognos Dashboards on Cloud Pak for Data has addressed security vulnerabilities

IBM Cognos Dashboards on Cloud Pak for Data 4.7.0 could allow a remote attacker to bypass security restrictions, caused by a reverse tabnabbing flaw. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability and redirect a victim to a phishing site. IBM X-Force ID: 262482.

Red Hat Security Advisory 2023-5533-01

Red Hat Security Advisory 2023-5533-01 - Node.js is a software development platform for building fast and scalable network applications in the JavaScript programming language. The package has been upgraded to a later upstream version: nodejs. Issues addressed include HTTP request smuggling, buffer overflow, bypass, crlf injection, and denial of service vulnerabilities.

RHSA-2023:5533: Red Hat Security Advisory: nodejs security, bug fix, and enhancement update

An update for nodejs is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.0 Extended Update Support. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.This content is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). If you distribute this content, or a modified version of it, you must provide attribution to Red Hat Inc. and provide a link to the original. Related CVEs: * CVE-2022-4904: A flaw was found in the c-ares package. The ares_set_sortlist is missing checks about the validity of the input string, which allows a possible arbitrary length stack overflow. This issue may cause a denial of service or a limited impact on confidentiality and integrity. * CVE-2022-25881: A flaw was found in http-cache-se...

Red Hat Security Advisory 2023-2654-01

Red Hat Security Advisory 2023-2654-01 - Node.js is a software development platform for building fast and scalable network applications in the JavaScript programming language. Issues addressed include buffer overflow, bypass, crlf injection, and denial of service vulnerabilities.

Red Hat Security Advisory 2023-2655-01

Red Hat Security Advisory 2023-2655-01 - Node.js is a software development platform for building fast and scalable network applications in the JavaScript programming language. Issues addressed include buffer overflow, bypass, crlf injection, and denial of service vulnerabilities.

RHSA-2023:2655: Red Hat Security Advisory: nodejs and nodejs-nodemon security, bug fix, and enhancement update

An update for nodejs and nodejs-nodemon is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.This content is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). If you distribute this content, or a modified version of it, you must provide attribution to Red Hat Inc. and provide a link to the original. Related CVEs: * CVE-2022-4904: A flaw was found in the c-ares package. The ares_set_sortlist is missing checks about the validity of the input string, which allows a possible arbitrary length stack overflow. This issue may cause a denial of service or a limited impact on confidentiality and integrity. * CVE-2022-25881: A flaw was found in http-cache-semantics....

RHSA-2023:1583: Red Hat Security Advisory: nodejs:18 security, bug fix, and enhancement update

An update for the nodejs:18 module is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.This content is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). If you distribute this content, or a modified version of it, you must provide attribution to Red Hat Inc. and provide a link to the original. Related CVEs: * CVE-2021-35065: A vulnerability was found in the glob-parent package. Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Regular expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) attacks, affecting system availability. * CVE-2022-25881: A flaw was found in http-cache-semantics. When the server reads the cache policy from the request using this library, a Regula...

RHSA-2023:1582: Red Hat Security Advisory: nodejs:16 security, bug fix, and enhancement update

An update for the nodejs:16 module is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.This content is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). If you distribute this content, or a modified version of it, you must provide attribution to Red Hat Inc. and provide a link to the original. Related CVEs: * CVE-2021-35065: A vulnerability was found in the glob-parent package. Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Regular expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) attacks, affecting system availability. * CVE-2022-4904: A flaw was found in the c-ares package. The ares_set_sortlist is missing checks about the validity of the input string, which a...

CVE-2023-24807: Release v5.19.1 · nodejs/undici

Undici is an HTTP/1.1 client for Node.js. Prior to version 5.19.1, the `Headers.set()` and `Headers.append()` methods are vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) attacks when untrusted values are passed into the functions. This is due to the inefficient regular expression used to normalize the values in the `headerValueNormalize()` utility function. This vulnerability was patched in v5.19.1. No known workarounds are available.