CVE-2018-12121 (GCVE-0-2018-12121)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2018-11-28 17:00
Modified
2024-12-27 16:02
Severity ?
CWE
  • CWE-400 - Uncontrolled Resource Consumption / Denial of Service
Summary
Node.js: All versions prior to Node.js 6.15.0, 8.14.0, 10.14.0 and 11.3.0: Denial of Service with large HTTP headers: By using a combination of many requests with maximum sized headers (almost 80 KB per connection), and carefully timed completion of the headers, it is possible to cause the HTTP server to abort from heap allocation failure. Attack potential is mitigated by the use of a load balancer or other proxy layer.
References
https://nodejs.org/en/blog/vulnerability/november-2018-security-releases/ x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106043 vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1821 vendor-advisory, x_refsource_REDHAT
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2258 vendor-advisory, x_refsource_REDHAT
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3497 vendor-advisory, x_refsource_REDHAT
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202003-48 vendor-advisory, x_refsource_GENTOO
Impacted products
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The Node.js Project Node.js Version: All versions prior to Node.js 6.15.0, 8.14.0, 10.14.0 and 11.3.0
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