Remote Memory Exposure Affecting bittorrent-dht package, versions <5.1.3


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.15% (53rd percentile)

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  • Snyk ID npm:bittorrent-dht:20160104
  • published 5 Jan 2016
  • disclosed 4 Jan 2016
  • credit Feross Aboukhadijeh, Mathias Buss Madsen

Overview

A memory disclosure vulnerability exists in bittorrent-dht module that would allow an attacker to send a specific series of messages to a listening peer to make it disclose internal memory of the node.js process.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Snyk

Recommended
6.5 medium
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    None
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    Low
  • Integrity (I)
    Low
  • Availability (A)
    None