UBUNTU-CVE-2017-16129

Source
https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-16129
Import Source
https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2017/UBUNTU-CVE-2017-16129.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/UBUNTU-CVE-2017-16129
Upstream
Published
2018-06-07T02:29:00Z
Modified
2025-07-18T16:44:13Z
Severity
  • 5.9 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
  • Ubuntu - medium
Summary
[none]
Details

The HTTP client module superagent is vulnerable to ZIP bomb attacks. In a ZIP bomb attack, the HTTP server replies with a compressed response that becomes several magnitudes larger once uncompressed. If a client does not take special care when processing such responses, it may result in excessive CPU and/or memory consumption. An attacker might exploit such a weakness for a DoS attack. To exploit this the attacker must control the location (URL) that superagent makes a request to.

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:Pro:16.04:LTS / node-superagent

Package

Name
node-superagent
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/node-superagent@0.20.0+dfsg-1?arch=source&distro=esm-apps/xenial

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

0.*

0.20.0+dfsg-1

Ubuntu:Pro:18.04:LTS / node-superagent

Package

Name
node-superagent
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/node-superagent@0.20.0+dfsg-1?arch=source&distro=esm-apps/bionic

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

0.*

0.20.0+dfsg-1