Headline
GHSA-pwfr-8pq7-x9qv: Unauthenticated Denial of Service in the octokit/webhooks library
Impact
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.
The problem is caused by an issue with error handling in the @octokit/webhooks library because the error can be undefined in some cases.
Credit goes to @pb82 (for the early analysis) and @rh-tguittet (for discovery).
Patches
Maintenance releases for the Error being thrown by the verify method in octokit/webhooks.js
Maintenance release for the reference for octokit/webhooks.js in app.js
Maintenance release for the reference for octokit/webhooks.js in octokit.js
Maintenance release for the reference for octokit/webhooks.js in Protobot
Workarounds
It is recommend that all users upgrade to the latest version of octokit/webhooks.js or use one of the updated back ported versions.
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Unauthenticated Denial of Service in the octokit/webhooks library
High severity GitHub Reviewed Published Dec 15, 2023 in octokit/webhooks.js • Updated Dec 16, 2023
Package
npm @octokit/app (npm)
Affected versions
= 14.0.1
npm @octokit/webhooks (npm)
< 9.26.3
>= 10.0.0, < 10.9.2
>= 11.0.0, < 11.1.2
>= 12.0.0, < 12.0.3
9.26.3
10.9.2
11.1.2
12.0.3
Description
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database
Dec 16, 2023
Last updated
Dec 16, 2023
Related news
octokit/webhooks is a GitHub webhook events toolset for Node.js. Starting in 9.26.0 and prior to 9.26.3, 10.9.2, 11.1.2, and 12.0.4, there is a problem caused by an issue with error handling in the @octokit/webhooks library because the error can be undefined in some cases. The resulting request was found to cause an uncaught exception that ends the nodejs process. The bug is fixed in octokit/webhooks.js 9.26.3, 10.9.2, 11.1.2, and 12.0.4, app.js 14.02, octokit.js 3.1.2, and Protobot 12.3.3.