CVE-2014-7191 — Uncontrolled Resource Consumption in Node.js

CWE-399CWE-400 — Uncontrolled Resource Consumption8 documents7 sources
Severity
5.0MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.7%
top 28.19%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
2
QS Project QSNodejs Node.js
Timeline
PublishedOct 19
Latest updateOct 24

Description

The qs module before 1.0.0 in Node.js does not call the compact function for array data, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by using a large index value to create a sparse array.

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:L/C:N/I:N/A:PExploitability: 10.0 | Impact: 2.9

Affected Packages2 packages

▶NVDnodejs/node.js0.10.18
▶npmqs_project/qs< 1.0.0

Patches

Patch: github.com ↗Patch: github.com ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

4
OSV
Denial-of-Service Memory Exhaustion in qs↗2017-10-24
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GHSA
Denial-of-Service Memory Exhaustion in qs↗2017-10-24
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OSV
CVE-2014-7191: The qs module before 1↗2014-10-19
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CVEList
CVE-2014-7191: The qs module before 1↗2014-10-19
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📋Vendor Advisories

2
Red Hat
nodejs-qs: Denial-of-Service Memory Exhaustion↗2014-08-06
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Debian
CVE-2014-7191: node-qs - The qs module before 1.0.0 in Node.js does not call the compact function for arr...↗2014
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💬Community

1
Bugzilla
CVE-2014-7191 nodejs-qs: Denial-of-Service Memory Exhaustion↗2014-09-24
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