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Denial of Service (DoS) Affecting i18n-node-angular package, versions <1.4.0

0.0
high

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity Low

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS 0.08% (34th percentile)
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NVD
8.2 high

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  • Snyk ID npm:i18n-node-angular:20160125
  • published 25 Jan 2016
  • disclosed 25 Jan 2016
  • credit Garth Boyd
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Introduced: 25 Jan 2016

CVE-2016-10524 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-400 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Upgrade i18n-node-angular to version 1.4.0 or greater.

If a direct dependency update is not possible, use snyk wizard to patch this vulnerability.

Overview

A REST API /i18n/:locale/:phrase endpoint was accessible in production environment, allowing to add previously unknown translation literals to the translation files. This feature can be abused to mount a XSS attack via content injection, or a Denial of Service attack by exhausting storage resources on the server.

Details

Denial of Service (DoS) describes a family of attacks, all aimed at making a system inaccessible to its intended and legitimate users.

Unlike other vulnerabilities, DoS attacks usually do not aim at breaching security. Rather, they are focused on making websites and services unavailable to genuine users resulting in downtime.

One popular Denial of Service vulnerability is DDoS (a Distributed Denial of Service), an attack that attempts to clog network pipes to the system by generating a large volume of traffic from many machines.

When it comes to open source libraries, DoS vulnerabilities allow attackers to trigger such a crash or crippling of the service by using a flaw either in the application code or from the use of open source libraries.

Two common types of DoS vulnerabilities:

  • High CPU/Memory Consumption- An attacker sending crafted requests that could cause the system to take a disproportionate amount of time to process. For example, commons-fileupload:commons-fileupload.

  • Crash - An attacker sending crafted requests that could cause the system to crash. For Example, npm ws package