GHSA-mj6p-3pc9-wf5m

proxy denial of service vulnerability

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) High CVE-2023-2968

Packages

Ecosystem	Package	Affected	Fixed in
npm	proxy	>= 2.0.0, < 2.1.1	2.1.1

Details

As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).

A remote attacker can trigger a denial of service in the `socket.remoteAddress` variable, by sending a crafted HTTP request. Usage of the undefined variable raises a TypeError exception.

References

External links from the advisory. They lead to third-party sites.

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-2968 advisory
https://github.com/TooTallNate/proxy-agents/pull/178 web
https://github.com/TooTallNate/proxy-agents/commit/25e0c931390eb8f41c5ceaca72820de9198ece39 web
https://github.com/TooTallNate/proxy-agents package
https://research.jfrog.com/vulnerabilities/undefined-variable-usage-in-proxy-leads-to-remote-denial-of-service-xray-520917 web