The HTTP client module superagent is vulnerable to ZIP bomb attacks. In a ZIP bomb attack, the HTTP server replies with a compressed response that becomes several magnitudes larger once uncompressed. If a client does not take special care when processing such responses, it may result in excessive CPU and/or memory consumption. An attacker might exploit such a weakness for a DoS attack. To exploit this the attacker must control the location (URL) that superagent makes a request to.
Weakness
The product does not handle or incorrectly handles a compressed input with a very high compression ratio that produces a large output.
Affected Software
| Name | Vendor | Start Version | End Version |
|---|---|---|---|
| Superagent | Superagent_project | * | 3.7.0 (excluding) |
| Node-superagent | Ubuntu | bionic | * |
| Node-superagent | Ubuntu | esm-apps/bionic | * |
| Node-superagent | Ubuntu | esm-apps/xenial | * |
| Node-superagent | Ubuntu | trusty | * |
| Node-superagent | Ubuntu | upstream | * |
| Node-superagent | Ubuntu | xenial | * |