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Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

CVE-2024-21536

Severity High
Score 7.5/10

Summary

The http-proxy-middleware versions through 2.0.7-beta.0 and 3.0.0-beta.0 through 3.0.2 are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS) due to an "UnhandledPromiseRejection" error thrown by "micromatch". An attacker could kill the Node.js process and crash the server by making requests to certain paths.

  • 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.

Advisory Timeline

  • Published