Node fetch vulnerability 

Issue date: 21-09-2021
Affects versions: 14.6

Security Issue ID

SECURITY-235

 

Affected Product Version(s)

14.6.0 and previous releases.


Severity 

low

 

Description

 

NPM-1556  suppress

 

Node Fetch did not honor the size option after following a redirect, which means that when a content size was over the limit, a FetchError would never get thrown and the process would end without failure. For most people, this fix will have a little or no impact. However, if you are relying on node-fetch to gate files above a size, the impact could be significant, for example: If you don't double-check the size of the data after fetch() has completed, your JS thread could get tied up doing work on a large file (DoS) and/or cost you money in computing.

Unscored:

  • Severity: low

References:

 

Vulnerable Software & Versions (NPM):

  • cpe:2.3:a::node-fetch:\<2.6.1||\>\=3.0.0-beta.1\<3.0.0-beta.9:::::::

 

Instructions

Customers using the 14.x major versions are recommended to upgrade to the latest version in that series.