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Denial-of-Service Memory Exhaustion in qs

High severity GitHub Reviewed Published Oct 24, 2017 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Apr 11, 2023

Package

npm qs (npm)

Affected versions

< 1.0.0

Patched versions

1.0.0

Description

Versions prior to 1.0 of qs are affected by a denial of service condition. This condition is triggered by parsing a crafted string that deserializes into very large sparse arrays, resulting in the process running out of memory and eventually crashing.

Recommendation

Update to version 1.0.0 or later.

References

Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Oct 24, 2017
Reviewed Jun 16, 2020
Last updated Apr 11, 2023

Severity

High

EPSS score

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

This score estimates the probability of this vulnerability being exploited within the next 30 days. Data provided by FIRST.
(93rd percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2014-7191

GHSA ID

GHSA-jjv7-qpx3-h62q

Source code

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