HighGHSA-c7qv-q95q-8v27CVE-2024-21536
Denial of service in http-proxy-middleware
Published 19 Oct 2024 · Updated 10 Sept 2026
Affected packages
- Affected
- <2.0.7
- Fixed in
- 2.0.7
Update to the fixed version for your release line, for example:
npm install http-proxy-middleware@2.0.7- Affected
- >=3.0.0 <3.0.3
- Fixed in
- 3.0.3
Update to the fixed version for your release line, for example:
npm install http-proxy-middleware@3.0.3Details
Versions of the package http-proxy-middleware before 2.0.7, from 3.0.0 and before 3.0.3 are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS) due to an UnhandledPromiseRejection error thrown by micromatch. An attacker could kill the Node.js process and crash the server by making requests to certain paths.
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References
- Advisorynvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-21536
- Linkgithub.com/chimurai/http-proxy-middleware/commit/0b4274e8cc9e9a2c5a06f35fbf456ccfcebc55a5
- Linkgithub.com/chimurai/http-proxy-middleware/commit/788b21e4aff38332d6319557d4a5b1b13b1f9a22
- Linkgist.github.com/mhassan1/28be67266d82a53708ed59ce5dc3c94a
- Packagegithub.com/chimurai/http-proxy-middleware
- Linksecurity.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-HTTPPROXYMIDDLEWARE-8229906
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