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CVE-2022-39288GHSA-455W-C45V-86RG

Denial of service in Fastify via Content-Type header

Published
Last modified
published
Not listed in CISA KEV
Fix
Fixed in 4.8.1
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub
  • Exploitation: none
  • Automatable: yes
  • Technical impact: partial

Summary

fastify is a fast and low overhead web framework, for Node.js. Affected versions of fastify are subject to a denial of service via malicious use of the Content-Type header. An attacker can send an invalid Content-Type header that can cause the application to crash. This issue has been addressed in commit `fbb07e8d` and will be included in release version 4.8.1. Users are advised to upgrade. Users unable to upgrade may manually filter out http content with malicious Content-Type headers.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. CISA SSVC assessment

    Exploitation: none · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: partial

  3. Record last updated
  4. EPSS reached 10%

    FIRST estimates at least a 10% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Affected versions

  • fastify fastify

    From 4.0.0 · fixed in 4.8.1

  • fastifynpm

    From 4.0.0 · fixed in 4.8.1

References 3

GitHub · fastify/fastify