Denial of service in jQuery UI

1) Resource exhaustion

EUVDB-ID: #VU50161

Risk: Low

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

CVE-ID: CVE-2020-28488

CWE-ID: CWE-400 - Resource exhaustion

Exploit availability: Yes

Description

Not a vulnerability.

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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 the "dialog" is injected into an HTML tag more than once, the browser and the application may crash.

Mitigation

This is not a security vulnerability.

Vulnerable software versions CPE2.3

External links

https://packetstormsecurity.com/files/161167/jQuery-UI-1.12.1-Denial-Of-Service.html
https://bugs.jqueryui.com/ticket/15390
https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JAVA-ORGFUJIONWEBJARS-1062739
https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JAVA-ORGWEBJARS-1062741
https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JAVA-ORGWEBJARSBOWER-1062740
https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JAVA-ORGWEBJARSBOWERGITHUBJQUERY-1062738
https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JAVA-ORGWEBJARSNPM-1062742
https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-JQUERYUI-1052825

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. However, proof of concept for this vulnerability is available.