Uncontrolled Resource Consumption Affecting modern-async package, versions <1.0.4


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.21% (60th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-JS-MODERNASYNC-1765269
  • published 21 Oct 2021
  • disclosed 21 Oct 2021
  • credit Unknown

How 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.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Snyk

7.5 high
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    None
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    None
  • Integrity (I)
    None
  • Availability (A)
    High
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NVD

7.5 high