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Denial of service in fastify

Moderate severity GitHub Reviewed Published Aug 5, 2020 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Jan 9, 2023

Package

npm fastify (npm)

Affected versions

< 2.15.1

Patched versions

2.15.1

Description

A denial of service vulnerability exists in Fastify v2.14.1 and v3.0.0-rc.4 that allows a malicious user to trigger resource exhaustion (when the allErrors option is used) with specially crafted schemas.

References

Reviewed Aug 3, 2020
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Aug 5, 2020
Last updated Jan 9, 2023

Severity

Moderate

EPSS score

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

This score estimates the probability of this vulnerability being exploited within the next 30 days. Data provided by FIRST.
(59th percentile)

Weaknesses

Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

The product does not properly control the allocation and maintenance of a limited resource, thereby enabling an actor to influence the amount of resources consumed, eventually leading to the exhaustion of available resources. Learn more on MITRE.

CVE ID

CVE-2020-8192

GHSA ID

GHSA-xw5p-hw6r-2j98

Source code

No known source code
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