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GHSA-CXRH-J4JR-QWG3

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2025-05-15 14:15 – Updated: 2026-02-06 21:35

Summary

undici Denial of Service attack via bad certificate data

Details

Impact

Applications that use undici to implement a webhook-like system are vulnerable. If the attacker set up a server with an invalid certificate, and they can force the application to call the webhook repeatedly, then they can cause a memory leak.

Patches

This has been patched in https://github.com/nodejs/undici/pull/4088.

Workarounds

If a webhook fails, avoid keep calling it repeatedly.

References

Reported as: https://github.com/nodejs/undici/issues/3895

Severity

3.1 (Low)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

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CVE-2025-47279 (GCVE-0-2025-47279)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-05-15 17:16 – Updated: 2026-02-06 19:14

Title

undici Denial of Service attack via bad certificate data

Summary

Undici is an HTTP/1.1 client for Node.js. Prior to versions 5.29.0, 6.21.2, and 7.5.0, applications that use undici to implement a webhook-like system are vulnerable. If the attacker set up a server with an invalid certificate, and they can force the application to call the webhook repeatedly, then they can cause a memory leak. This has been patched in versions 5.29.0, 6.21.2, and 7.5.0. As a workaound, avoid calling a webhook repeatedly if the webhook fails.

Severity

3.1 (Low)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

SSVC

Exploitation: poc Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2025-05-15 17:51 UTC

CWE

CWE-401 - Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime

Assigner

GitHub_M CNA under the mitre root

CNA scorecard C 72/100 over 7819 records in the last 180 days details

References

4 references

URL	Tags
https://github.com/nodejs/undici/security/advisor…	x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://github.com/nodejs/undici/issues/3895	x_refsource_MISC
https://github.com/nodejs/undici/pull/4088	x_refsource_MISC
https://github.com/nodejs/undici/commit/f317618ec…	x_refsource_MISC

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
nodejs	undici	Affected: < 5.29.0 Affected: >= 6.0.0, < 6.21.2 Affected: >= 7.0.0, < 7.5.0

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