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Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

CVE-2024-28863

Medium
6.5/10

Summary

node-tar is a Tar for Node.js. tar versions prior to 6.2.1 have no limit on the number of sub-folders created in the folder creation process. An attacker who generates a large number of sub-folders can consume memory on the system running node-tar and even crash the Node.js client within a few seconds of running it using a path with too many sub-folders inside. This issue was fixed by preventing extraction in excessively deep sub-folders.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • UNCHANGED
  • REQUIRED
  • 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