superagent vulnerable to zip bomb attacks
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GHSA-8225-6cvr-8pqp
CVE-2017-16129
Description:
Affected versions of superagent do not check the post-decompression size of ZIP compressed HTTP responses prior to decompressing. This results in the package being vulnerable to a ZIP bomb attack, where an extremely small ZIP file becomes many orders of magnitude larger when decompressed.
This may result in unrestrained CPU/Memory/Disk consumption, causing a denial of service condition.
Recommendation
Update to version 3.7.0 or later.
Affected Packages
| Ecosystem | Package | Vulnerable Versions | Patched Version |
|---|---|---|---|
| npm |
superagent
|
< 3.7.0 |
3.7.0
|
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Advisory Details
| Published: | August 09, 2018 almost 8 years ago |
| Updated: | April 04, 2026 2 months ago |
| CVSS Score: | 5.9 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
| EPSS: | 0.39% 60th percentile |
| Source: | Github |
| Classification: | GENERAL |
| UUID: | MDE2OlNlY3VyaXR5QWR2aXNvcnlHSFNBLTgyMjUtNmN2ci04cHFw |