Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting nodejs package, versions <10.16.3-r0


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
4.88% (94th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-ALPINE315-NODEJS-1927187
  • published13 Aug 2019
  • disclosed13 Aug 2019

Introduced: 13 Aug 2019

CVE-2019-9515  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-770  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Alpine:3.15 nodejs to version 10.16.3-r0 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream nodejs package and not the nodejs package as distributed by Alpine. See How to fix? for Alpine:3.15 relevant fixed versions and status.

Some HTTP/2 implementations are vulnerable to a settings flood, potentially leading to a denial of service. The attacker sends a stream of SETTINGS frames to the peer. Since the RFC requires that the peer reply with one acknowledgement per SETTINGS frame, an empty SETTINGS frame is almost equivalent in behavior to a ping. Depending on how efficiently this data is queued, this can consume excess CPU, memory, or both.

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