description: 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.
problem types: Improper Handling of Highly Compressed Data (Data Amplification) (CWE-409)
affected:
{
product: superagent node module
vendor: HackerOne
versions:
status: affected, version: <3.7.0
}