Version Details and Security Vulnerabilities

Versions of ecstatic prior to 4.1.2, 3.3.2 or 2.2.2 are vulnerable to Open Redirect. The package fails to validate redirects, allowing attackers to craft requests that result in an HTTP 301 redirect to any other domains.

Recommendation

If using ecstatic 4.x, upgrade to 4.1.2 or later. If using ecstatic 3.x, upgrade to 3.3.2 or later. If using ecstatic 2.x, upgrade to 2.2.2 or later.

ecstatic have a denial of service vulnerability. Successful exploitation could lead to crash of an application.

ecstatic, a simple static file server middleware, is vulnerable to denial of service. If a payload with a large number of null bytes (%00) is provided by an attacker it can crash ecstatic by running it out of memory.

Results from the original advisory

A payload of 22kB caused a lag of 1 second,
A payload of 35kB caused a lag of 3 seconds,
A payload of 86kB caused the server to crash

Recommendation

Update to version 2.0.0 or later.