Remote Memory Exposure Affecting bittorrent-dht package, versions <5.1.3


0.0
medium

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity Low

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS 0.15% (51st percentile)
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NVD
7.5 high

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  • Snyk ID npm:bittorrent-dht:20160104
  • published 5 Jan 2016
  • disclosed 4 Jan 2016
  • credit Feross Aboukhadijeh, Mathias Buss Madsen

Overview

A memory disclosure vulnerability exists in bittorrent-dht module that would allow an attacker to send a specific series of messages to a listening peer to make it disclose internal memory of the node.js process.