Asymmetric denial of service In devalue
Description
devalue: stringifyAsync can cause an unhandled rejection despite a caught returned promise
When serializing multiple promises, a later promise can reject before an earlier one settles. An internal rejected promise remains unhandled even if the caller catches the returned stringifyAsync promise. Under Node's default unhandled-rejection behavior this can terminate the process. Applications whose asynchronous failures/timing can be influenced by requests are potentially exposed.
This is essentially impossible to exploit, and is much more likely to surface as a developer-introduced bug.
Mitigation
Update Impact
Minimal update. May introduce new vulnerabilities or breaking changes.
Ecosystem | Component | Affected version | Patched versions |
|---|---|---|---|
npm | 5.9.3 |
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