CVE-2019-10196 is a critical vulnerability in http-proxy-agent, affecting versions prior to 2.1.0, as well as products from fedoraproject and Red Hat. The flaw allows an attacker to trigger a Denial of Service by exhausting CPU resources and potentially leak sensitive data through uninitialized memory by manipulating the 'auth' parameter without proper sanitization. With a CVSS score of 9.8, this vulnerability is easily exploitable over the network with low complexity and no user interaction, leading to high impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While there is no evidence of active exploitation or publicly available exploit code in Metasploit, Nuclei, or ExploitDB, the vulnerability has garnered significant community discussion, indicating awareness and potential future exploitation.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 2.1.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:http-proxy-agent_project:http-proxy-agent:*:*:*:*:*:node.js:*:* | ||
27CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:27:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:redhat:software_collections:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
7.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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