CVE-2020-15168

Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in npm/node-fetch

Identifiers

CVE-2020-15168, GHSA-w7rc-rwvf-8q5r

Package Slug

npm/node-fetch

Vulnerability

Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

Description

node-fetch did not honor the size option after following a redirect, which means that when a content size was over the limit, a FetchError would never get thrown and the process would end without failure. For most people, this fix will have a little or no impact. However, if you are relying on node-fetch to gate files above a size, the impact could be significant, for example: If you don't double-check the size of the data after fetch() has completed, your JS thread could get tied up doing work on a large file (DoS) and/or cost you money in computing.

Affected Versions

All versions before 2.6.1, version 3.0.0

Solution

Upgrade to version 2.6.1 or above.

Last Modified

2020-09-18

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