Vulnerabilities > CVE-2022-21208 - Improper Validation of Specified Quantity in Input vulnerability in Node-Opcua Project Node-Opcua
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
NONE Integrity impact
NONE Availability impact
HIGH Summary
The package node-opcua before 2.74.0 are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS) due to a missing limitation on the number of received chunks - per single session or in total for all concurrent sessions. An attacker can exploit this vulnerability by sending an unlimited number of huge chunks (e.g. 2GB each) without sending the Final closing chunk.
Vulnerable Configurations
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
References
- https://github.com/node-opcua/node-opcua/commit/33ca3bab4ab781392a2f8d8f5a14de9a0aa0e410
- https://github.com/node-opcua/node-opcua/commit/33ca3bab4ab781392a2f8d8f5a14de9a0aa0e410
- https://github.com/node-opcua/node-opcua/commit/dbcb5d5191118c22ee9c89332a94b94e6553d76b
- https://github.com/node-opcua/node-opcua/commit/dbcb5d5191118c22ee9c89332a94b94e6553d76b
- https://github.com/node-opcua/node-opcua/pull/1149
- https://github.com/node-opcua/node-opcua/pull/1149
- https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-NODEOPCUA-2988723
- https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-NODEOPCUA-2988723