CVE-2022-36313

medium

Description

An issue was discovered in the file-type package before 16.5.4 and 17.x before 17.1.3 for Node.js. A malformed MKV file could cause the file type detector to get caught in an infinite loop. This would make the application become unresponsive and could be used to cause a DoS attack.

References

Advisories

https://www.npmjs.com/package/file-type

https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20220909-0005/

https://github.com/sindresorhus/file-type/releases/tag/v17.1.3

https://github.com/sindresorhus/file-type/releases/tag/v16.5.4

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2022-07-21

Updated: 2022-10-27

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00026