Denial of Service (DoS) Affecting pwpush package, versions >=0.0.0
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- published22 Nov 2024
- disclosed21 Nov 2024
- creditUnknown
Introduced: 21 Nov 2024
CVE-2024-52796 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
A fix was pushed into the master branch but not yet published.
Overview
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS) due to a bypass of the rate limiter, by forging proxy headers. An attacker can send unlimited traffic to the site.
Note: See this documentation, if the IP address of a remote proxy needs to be authorized.
Workaround
Add rules to your proxy and/or firewall to not accept external proxy headers such as X-Forwarded-* from clients.
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
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