Denial of Service (DoS) Affecting meemo-app package, versions <1.13.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JS-MEEMOAPP-608290
  • published23 Aug 2020
  • disclosed22 Aug 2020
  • creditd3lla

Introduced: 22 Aug 2020

CVE NOT AVAILABLE CWE-99  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade meemo-app to version 1.13.1 or higher.

Overview

meemo-app is a personal ideas, notes or links manager.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS) via LDAP Injection. It allows a malicious attacker to send a crafted input that is interpreted as an LDAP filter.

Details

Denial of Service (DoS) describes a family of attacks, all aimed at making a system inaccessible to its intended and legitimate users.

Unlike other vulnerabilities, DoS attacks usually do not aim at breaching security. Rather, they are focused on making websites and services unavailable to genuine users resulting in downtime.

One popular Denial of Service vulnerability is DDoS (a Distributed Denial of Service), an attack that attempts to clog network pipes to the system by generating a large volume of traffic from many machines.

When it comes to open source libraries, DoS vulnerabilities allow attackers to trigger such a crash or crippling of the service by using a flaw either in the application code or from the use of open source libraries.

Two common types of DoS vulnerabilities:

  • High CPU/Memory Consumption- An attacker sending crafted requests that could cause the system to take a disproportionate amount of time to process. For example, commons-fileupload:commons-fileupload.

  • Crash - An attacker sending crafted requests that could cause the system to crash. For Example, npm ws package

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