Vigil@nce - Node.js node-weakauras-parser: buffer overflow via encode_weakaura
June 2020 by Vigil@nce
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SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
Impacted products: Nodejs Modules not comprehensive.
Severity: 2/4.
Consequences: user access/rights, denial of service on service,
denial of service on client.
Provenance: document.
Confidence: confirmed by the editor (5/5).
Creation date: 08/04/2020.
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
An attacker can trigger a buffer overflow via encode_weakaura() of
Node.js node-weakauras-parser, in order to trigger a denial of
service, and possibly to run code.
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