PT-2020-20963 · Hapi · Subtext
Published
2020-09-03
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Updated
2020-09-03
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Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions
subtext versions prior to 6.1.2
Description
The issue allows attackers to send requests with arbitrary payload sizes, potentially exhausting system resources and leading to Denial of Service. This is due to the package's failure to enforce the
maxBytes configuration for payloads with chunked encoding that are written to the file system.Recommendations
For versions prior to 6.1.2, update to version 6.1.2 or later, available in the
@hapi/subtext package, as the original subtext package is not actively maintained.Resource Exhaustion
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Subtext