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jfhbrook/node-ecstatic · Security

Denial of Service in ecstatic

GHSA ID
GHSA-pm9p-9926-w68m
CVE ID
CVE-2016-10703
Severity
high
Published
Updated
CVSS
7.5 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v3
7.5 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Description

ecstatic, a simple static file server middleware, is vulnerable to denial of service. If a payload with a large number of null bytes (%00) is provided by an attacker it can crash ecstatic by running it out of memory.

Results from the original advisory

A payload of 22kB caused a lag of 1 second,
A payload of 35kB caused a lag of 3 seconds,
A payload of 86kB caused the server to crash

Recommendation

Update to version 2.0.0 or later.

CWEs

  • CWE-400 · Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

References