CVE-2019-10196 Resource Exhaustion Denial of Service in http-proxy-agent

What is CVE-2019-10196?

CVE-2019-10196 is a critical vulnerability in Fedoraproject Fedora, published on 19 Mar 2021. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

A flaw was found in http-proxy-agent, prior to version 2.1.0. It was discovered http-proxy-agent passes an auth option to the Buffer constructor without proper sanitization. This could result in a Denial of Service through the usage of all available CPU resources and data exposure through an uninitialized memory leak in setups where an attacker could submit typed input to the auth parameter.

Weakness: CWE-665

Which versions are affected by CVE-2019-10196?

2 open source packages ship an affected version, including http-proxy-agent. It affects 4 products.

Products include Fedoraproject Fedora, Http-Proxy-Agent Project Http-Proxy-Agent, Redhat Enterprise Linux, Redhat Software Collections.

How do I fix CVE-2019-10196?

Upgrade http-proxy-agent to 2.1.0 or later.

Is CVE-2019-10196 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2019-10196 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

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Also known as GHSA-86wf-436m-h424.