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Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

CVE-2021-27191

High
7.5/10

Summary

The get-ip-range package before 4.0.0 for Node.js is vulnerable to denial of service (DoS) if the range is untrusted input. An attacker could send a large range (such as 128.0.0.0/1) that causes resource exhaustion.

  • 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