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Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

CVE-2015-1407

Medium
6.5/10

Summary

The ghost npm package before versions 0.5.9 is affected by a Denial of Service vulnerability which would allow an attacker to crash the application by filesystem resource exhaustion, since when an avatar for a user was uploaded, the previous one remained in the filesystem.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • LOW
  • NONE
  • HIGH

CWE-400 - Uncontrolled resource consumption

An uncontrolled resource allocation attack (also known as resource exhaustion attack) triggers unauthorized overconsumption of the limited resources in an application, such as memory, file system storage, database connection pool entries, and CPU. This may lead to denial of service for valid users and degradation of the application's functionality as well as that of the host operating system.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published