Fluid Attacks Database

Description

superagent vulnerable to zip bomb attacks Affected versions of superagent do not check the post-decompression size of ZIP compressed HTTP responses prior to decompressing. This results in the package being vulnerable to a ZIP bomb attack, where an extremely small ZIP file becomes many orders of magnitude larger when decompressed.

This may result in unrestrained CPU/Memory/Disk consumption, causing a denial of service condition.

Recommendation

Update to version 3.7.0 or later.

Mitigation

Update Impact

Minimal update. May introduce new vulnerabilities or breaking changes.

Ecosystem	Component	Affected version	Patched versions
debian 14	node-superagent	>=0 <0.20.0+dfsg-2	0.20.0+dfsg-2
debian 11	node-superagent	>=0 <0.20.0+dfsg-2	0.20.0+dfsg-2
debian 12	node-superagent	>=0 <0.20.0+dfsg-2	0.20.0+dfsg-2
debian 13	node-superagent	>=0 <0.20.0+dfsg-2	0.20.0+dfsg-2
npm	superagent	>=0 <3.7.0	3.7.0

Aliases

1. CVE-2017-161292. NVD-2017-161293. OSV-DEBIAN-2017-161294. OSV-2017-161295. GHSA-8225-6cvr-8pqp6. GCVE-2017-161297. SECURITY-TRACKER-CVE-2017-16129

References

1. https://github.com/visionmedia/superagent/issues/12592. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zip_bomb3. https://www.npmjs.com/advisories/479

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