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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
Related Dependabot Pull Requests
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