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CVE-2018-3739 Denial of Service in https-proxy-agent

CriticalCVSS 9.1 EPSS 1.7%
Published
Updated
Exploit status
No public exploit known

Description

https-proxy-agent before 2.1.1 passes auth option to the Buffer constructor without proper sanitization, resulting in DoS and uninitialized memory leak in setups where an attacker could submit typed input to the 'auth' parameter (e.g. JSON).

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
npm https-proxy-agent(npm) < 2.2.0 2.2.0
https-proxy-agent project https-proxy-agent < 2.2.0 2.2.0
HackerOne https-proxy-agent node module = Versions before 2.1.1 No fix listed

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