Resource exhaustion in nodejs-current (Alpine package)

Published: 2020-06-03

Risk	Medium
Patch available	YES
Number of vulnerabilities	1
CVE-ID	CVE-2020-11080
CWE-ID	CWE-400
Exploitation vector	Network
Public exploit	N/A
Vulnerable software	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: #VU28538

Risk: Medium

CVSSv4.0: 6.6 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green]

CVE-ID: CVE-2020-11080

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 application does not properly control consumption of internal resources when processing HTTP/2 SETTINGS frames. A remote attacker can trigger high CPU load by sending large HTTP/2 SETTINGS frames and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

Mitigation

Install update from vendor's website.

Vulnerable software versions

nodejs-current (Alpine package): 11.1.0-r0 - 14.3.0-r0

CPE2.3

External links

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.