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pg-native and libpq vulnerable to uncontrolled resource consumption

High severity GitHub Reviewed Published Jun 18, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Oct 19, 2023

Package

npm libpq (npm)

Affected versions

<= 1.8.9

Patched versions

1.8.10
npm pg-native (npm)
<= 3.0.0
3.0.1

Description

pg-native before 3.0.1 and libpq before 1.8.10 are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS) when the addons attempt to cast the second argument to an array and fail. This happens for every non-array argument passed. Note: pg-native is a mere binding to npm's libpq library, which in turn has the addons and bindings to the actual C libpq library. This means that problems found in pg-native may transitively impact npm's libpq.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Jun 17, 2022
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Jun 18, 2022
Reviewed Jun 20, 2022
Last updated Oct 19, 2023

Severity

High

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS score

0.081%
(37th percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2022-25852

GHSA ID

GHSA-j32j-2hxv-rqf7

Source code

No known source code

Credits

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