Resource exhaustion in nodejs-current (Alpine package)

Published: 2019-02-25

Risk	Medium
Patch available	YES
Number of vulnerabilities	1
CVE-ID	CVE-2019-5737
CWE-ID	CWE-400
Exploitation vector	Network
Public exploit	N/A
Vulnerable software Subscribe	nodejs-current (Alpine package) Operating systems & Components / Operating system package or component
Vendor	Alpine Linux Development Team

Security Bulletin

This security bulletin contains one medium risk vulnerability.

1) Resource exhaustion

EUVDB-ID: #VU26284

Risk: Medium

CVSSv3.1: 6.5 [CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H/E:U/RL:O/RC:C]

CVE-ID: CVE-2019-5737

CWE-ID: CWE-400 - Resource exhaustion

Exploit availability: No

Description

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to incorrect processing of keep-alive packets. A remote attacker can send keep-alive packets very slowly and trigger resource exhaustion.

Mitigation

Install update from vendor's website.

Vulnerable software versions

nodejs-current (Alpine package): 11.1.0-r0 - 11.9.0-r0

CPE2.3

External links

http://git.alpinelinux.org/aports/commit/?id=86317da5622f4bbbcda0c78043d513b90bb64a69
http://git.alpinelinux.org/aports/commit/?id=578c97338a5cc6615df123d2759ef349dbf88c2c
http://git.alpinelinux.org/aports/commit/?id=75cc679dead3d9b8aebb82a11c1f81a4eaaab853
http://git.alpinelinux.org/aports/commit/?id=7149c919df587e3f9125fdac8bc2ccd4952027e3
http://git.alpinelinux.org/aports/commit/?id=bd2573712de1614fdb052e833bc6ab037c54997b
http://git.alpinelinux.org/aports/commit/?id=ef901440524286c30fa8a9bc9d3cef3f36339d9f
http://git.alpinelinux.org/aports/commit/?id=8cdc1514a48e59f1229d3c5f3cf136dc0eabfe16

Q & A

Can this vulnerability be exploited remotely?

Yes. This vulnerability can be exploited by a remote non-authenticated attacker via the Internet.

Is there known malware, which exploits this vulnerability?

No. We are not aware of malware exploiting this vulnerability.