CVE-2024-21536

HIGH7.5EPSS 0.36%

Denial of service in http-proxy-middleware

Published: 10/19/2024Modified: 2/4/2026

Also known as:GHSA-c7qv-q95q-8v27CGA-h47m-287p-r23r

Description

Versions of the package http-proxy-middleware before 2.0.7, from 3.0.0 and before 3.0.3 are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS) due to an UnhandledPromiseRejection error thrown by micromatch. An attacker could kill the Node.js process and crash the server by making requests to certain paths.

Affected packages (1)

npm/http-proxy-middlewarefrom 0, < 2.0.7

CVSS scores

Source	Version	Severity	Vector
osv	CVSS 3.1	HIGH7.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References (6)

ADVISORYhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-21536
PATCHhttps://github.com/chimurai/http-proxy-middleware
WEBhttps://gist.github.com/mhassan1/28be67266d82a53708ed59ce5dc3c94a
WEBhttps://github.com/chimurai/http-proxy-middleware/commit/0b4274e8cc9e9a2c5a06f35fbf456ccfcebc55a5
WEBhttps://github.com/chimurai/http-proxy-middleware/commit/788b21e4aff38332d6319557d4a5b1b13b1f9a22
WEBhttps://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-HTTPPROXYMIDDLEWARE-8229906