{"id":"UBUNTU-CVE-2017-16129","details":"The HTTP client module superagent is vulnerable to ZIP bomb attacks. In a ZIP bomb attack, the HTTP server replies with a compressed response that becomes several magnitudes larger once uncompressed. If a client does not take special care when processing such responses, it may result in excessive CPU and/or memory consumption. An attacker might exploit such a weakness for a DoS attack. To exploit this the attacker must control the location (URL) that superagent makes a request to.","modified":"2025-10-24T04:46:34Z","published":"2018-06-07T02:29:00Z","upstream":["CVE-2017-16129"],"references":[{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-16129"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://github.com/visionmedia/superagent/issues/1259"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/479"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-16129"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"node-superagent","ecosystem":"Ubuntu:16.04:LTS","purl":"pkg:deb/ubuntu/node-superagent@0.20.0+dfsg-1?arch=source&distro=xenial"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"}]}],"versions":["0.20.0+dfsg-1"],"ecosystem_specific":{"binaries":[{"binary_name":"node-superagent","binary_version":"0.20.0+dfsg-1"}]},"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2017/UBUNTU-CVE-2017-16129.json"}},{"package":{"name":"node-superagent","ecosystem":"Ubuntu:18.04:LTS","purl":"pkg:deb/ubuntu/node-superagent@0.20.0+dfsg-1?arch=source&distro=bionic"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"}]}],"versions":["0.20.0+dfsg-1"],"ecosystem_specific":{"binaries":[{"binary_name":"node-superagent","binary_version":"0.20.0+dfsg-1"}]},"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2017/UBUNTU-CVE-2017-16129.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.3","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"},{"type":"Ubuntu","score":"medium"}]}