Resource Exhaustion The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package npm (opens in a new tab)
Threat Intelligence
Exploit maturity not defined.
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Test your applications- Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL8-NPM-1877976
- published1 Nov 2021
- disclosed15 Sept 2020
Introduced: 15 Sep 2020
CVE-2020-8251 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:8.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream npm package and not the npm package as distributed by RHEL.
Node.js < 14.11.0 is vulnerable to HTTP denial of service (DoS) attacks based on delayed requests submission which can make the server unable to accept new connections.
References
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20201009-0004/
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-8251
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/4OOYAMJVLLCLXDTHW3V5UXNULZBBK4O6/
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202101-07
- https://hackerone.com/reports/868834
- https://nodejs.org/en/blog/vulnerability/september-2020-security-releases/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/4OOYAMJVLLCLXDTHW3V5UXNULZBBK4O6/