Uncontrolled Resource Consumption Affecting modern-async package, versions <1.0.4
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0.24% (65th
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-JS-MODERNASYNC-1765269
- published 21 Oct 2021
- disclosed 21 Oct 2021
- credit Unknown
Introduced: 21 Oct 2021
CVE-2021-41167 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade modern-async to version 1.0.4 or higher.
Overview
modern-async is an A modern tooling library for asynchronous operations using async/await and promises
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Uncontrolled Resource Consumption via a bug affecting two of the functions in this library: forEachSeries and forEachLimit. They should limit the concurrency of some actions but, in practice, they don't.
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