High, CVSS 8.2npmAmendedPublished
Unauthenticated Denial of Service in the octokit/webhooks library
CVE-2023-50728 · GHSA-pwfr-8pq7-x9qv
- Affected
- npm octokit < 3.1.2
- Fixed in
- 3.1.2· Vendor fix available
- Issue
- Impact Versions v9.26.0, v10.9.x), v11.1.x, v12.0.x all contained the code that would throw the error. Specifically, during a pentest we encountered a bug in the octokit/webhooks library (a dependency of Probot, a framework for building Github Apps). The resulting request was found to cause an uncaught exception that ends the nodejs process. The problem is caused by an issue with error handling in the @octokit/webhooks library because the error can be undefined in some cases. Credit goes to @pb82 (for the early analysis) and @rh-tguittet (for discovery). Patches Maintenance releases for the Error being thrown by the verify method in octokit/webhooks.js v12 - v12.0.4 v11 - v11.1.2 v10 -v10.9.2 v9 - v9.26.3 Maintenance release for the reference for octokit/webhooks.js in app.js v14.0.2 Maintenance release for the reference for octokit/webhooks.js in octokit.js v3.1.2 Maintenance release for the reference for octokit/webhooks.js in Protobot v12.3.3 Workarounds It is recommend that all…
Recommended action: Upgrade to 3.1.2 or later, then redeploy and verify.A vendor fix does not resolve your finding until you verify it in your own systems.