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HIGH7.5

GHSA-6x33-pw7p-hmpq

Denial of Service in http-proxy

Quick fix

GHSA-6x33-pw7p-hmpq — http-proxy: upgrade to the fixed version with the command below.

npm install http-proxy@1.18.1

Details

Versions of `http-proxy` prior to 1.18.1 are vulnerable to Denial of Service. An HTTP request with a long body triggers an `ERR_HTTP_HEADERS_SENT` unhandled exception that crashes the proxy server. This is only possible when the proxy server sets headers in the proxy request using the `proxyReq.setHeader` function.

For a proxy server running on `http://localhost:3000`, the following curl request triggers the unhandled exception: ```curl -XPOST http://localhost:3000 -d "$(python -c 'print("x"*1025)')"```

## Recommendation

Upgrade to version 1.18.1 or later

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Affected packages

npm/http-proxy
Introduced in: 0Fixed in: 1.18.1
Fixnpm install http-proxy@1.18.1

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