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Vulnerabilities / CVE-2018-3739

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CVE-2018-3739

nodejs-https-proxy-agent: Unsanitized options passed to Buffer() allow for denial of service

Published Modified CWE 400, 125
In the Trivy database since at least 24 Oct 2026, 07:11 UTCWhen it arrived before that build is not recorded.

Severity by source

NVD9.1CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
GHSA9.1CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
Red Hat8.2CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H

Trivy's own label is CRITICAL. Rated critical by NVD, GHSA. Rated lower by Red Hat (medium).

Description

https-proxy-agent before 2.1.1 passes auth option to the Buffer constructor without proper sanitization, resulting in DoS and uninitialized memory leak in setups where an attacker could submit typed input to the 'auth' parameter (e.g. JSON).

Affected packages and fixed versions

SourcePackageFixed in
npm::GitHub Security Advisory npmhttps-proxy-agent2.2.0
chainguardjitsucom-jitsu0
Red Hatrh-nodejs8-nodejs, rh-nodejs8-nodejs-devel, rh-nodejs8-nodejs-docs and 1 moreno fix listed
wolfijitsucom-jitsu0
Show all 7 entries from 4 sources
SourcePackageFixed in
npm::GitHub Security Advisory npmhttps-proxy-agent2.2.0
chainguardjitsucom-jitsu0
Red Hatrh-nodejs8-nodejsno fix listed
Red Hatrh-nodejs8-nodejs-develno fix listed
Red Hatrh-nodejs8-nodejs-docsno fix listed
Red Hatrh-nodejs8-npmno fix listed
wolfijitsucom-jitsu0

References

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