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AIKIDO-2024-10383

swagger-api/swagger-ui is vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS)

Denial of Service (DoS)CVE-2024-27983 Published Oct 29, 2024

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Medium Risk

This Affects:

phpswagger-api/swagger-ui
1.0 - 5.13.0
Fixed in 5.14.0
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TL;DR

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS) due to a vulnerability in Node.js, which is utilized by the Docker configuration in swagger-ui. This issue can be triggered by sending specially crafted requests, leading to excessive resource consumption and potentially causing the application to become unresponsive. Updating Node.js will mitigate such DoS attacks.

Who does this affect?

You are affected if you are using a version which is within vulnerability ranges and you are using a Docker image with Node.js 18.20.1-r0.

Background info

swagger-api/swagger-ui is vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS) in versions 1.0 - 5.13.0.

How to fix this

Upgrade the swagger-api/swagger-ui library to the patch version or update the Node.js version on your Docker image.