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Denial of service in Valine

Moderate severity GitHub Reviewed Published Jun 21, 2021 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Feb 1, 2023

Package

npm valine (npm)

Affected versions

<= 1.4.14

Patched versions

None

Description

Valine is a fast, simple & powerful comment system. Valine 1.4.14 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application outage) by supplying a ua (aka User-Agent) value that only specifies the product and version.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Jun 16, 2021
Reviewed Jun 17, 2021
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Jun 21, 2021
Last updated Feb 1, 2023

Severity

Moderate
5.3
/ 10

CVSS base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
Low
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2021-34801

GHSA ID

GHSA-p2c4-gxp4-j3xp

Source code

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