http-proxy-middleware up to 2.0.6/3.0.2 resource consumption

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability described as problematic has been identified in http-proxy-middleware up to 2.0.6/3.0.2. This affects an unknown part. Such manipulation leads to resource consumption. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2024-21536. The attack may be launched remotely. There is no exploit available. Upgrading the affected component is recommended.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in http-proxy-middleware up to 2.0.6/3.0.2. Affected by this issue is an unknown code block. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a resource consumption vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-400. The product does not properly control the allocation and maintenance of a limited resource, thereby enabling an actor to influence the amount of resources consumed, eventually leading to the exhaustion of available resources. Impacted is availability. CVE summarizes:

Versions of the package http-proxy-middleware before 2.0.7, from 3.0.0 and before 3.0.3 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.

The advisory is shared for download at security.snyk.io. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2024-21536 since 12/22/2023. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1499.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 209510 (RHEL 6 : odh-operator-container (Unpatched Vulnerability)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.

Upgrading to version 2.0.7 or 3.0.3 eliminates this vulnerability. Applying the patch 0b4274e8cc9e9a2c5a06f35fbf456ccfcebc55a5 is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at github.com. The best possible mitigation is suggested to be upgrading to the latest version.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Tenable (209510). Once again VulDB remains the best source for vulnerability data.

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Type

• Middleware

Name

• http-proxy-middleware

Version

• 2.0.0
• 2.0.1
• 2.0.2
• 2.0.3
• 2.0.4
• 2.0.5
• 2.0.6
• 3.0.0
• 3.0.1
• 3.0.2

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• open-source

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