Denial of Service (DoS) Affecting botkit package, versions <0.4.4


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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  • Snyk ID npm:botkit:20161220
  • published 25 Dec 2017
  • disclosed 19 Dec 2016
  • credit Unknown

Introduced: 19 Dec 2016

CVE NOT AVAILABLE CWE-400 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Upgrade botkit to version 0.4.4 or higher.

Overview

botkit is Building blocks for Building Bots.

Affected versions of the package are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS) attacks. An attacker may send huge arrays of requests or impersonate FB/users, causing the server to take extremely long time to process these requests.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Snyk

Recommended
5.3 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)
    None
  • Availability (A)
    None