Denial of service in axios



Risk Medium
Patch available YES
Number of vulnerabilities 1
CVE-ID CVE-2021-3749
CWE-ID CWE-400
Exploitation vector Network
Public exploit N/A
Vulnerable software
 axios
Web applications / Modules and components for CMS

Vendor axios

Security Bulletin

This security bulletin contains one medium risk vulnerability.

1) Resource exhaustion

EUVDB-ID: #VU56963

Risk: Medium

CVSSv4.0: 2.7 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green]

CVE-ID: CVE-2021-3749

CWE-ID: CWE-400 - Resource exhaustion

Exploit availability: No

Description

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a regular expression denial of service (ReDoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to application does not properly control consumption of internal resources within the isURLSearchParams function in utils.js. A remote attacker can send specially crafted data to the application and perform regular expression denial of service (ReDoS) attack.

Mitigation

Install updates from vendor's website.

Vulnerable software versions

axios: 0.1.0 - 0.21.1

CPE2.3 External links

https://github.com/axios/axios/commit/5b457116e31db0e88fede6c428e969e87f290929
https://huntr.dev/bounties/1e8f07fc-c384-4ff9-8498-0690de2e8c31


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.



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