SB2020020312 - Denial of service in Strapi
Published: February 3, 2020
Security Bulletin ID
SB2020020312
Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Denial of service
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Resource exhaustion (CVE-ID: N/A)
The vulnerability allows a remote user to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to the sanitisation regex in "installPlugin" and "uninstallPlugin" handler functions for the admin panel allows the dash - character. A remote administrator can pass valid arguments like -h, -v, --help which will be passed to "execa()" and restart a server.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.