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GHSA-fq54-2j52-jc42 CVE-2024-39693

Next.js Denial of Service (DoS) condition

High npm
Severity
0.0 / 10
High · CVSS 4.0
Exploit chance (EPSS)
0.49%
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Higher than 42.18% of scored vulnerabilities.
Known exploited
No
Not in CISA's catalog
Weakness
CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
Fix
13.5.0
Upgrade next to this version or later

Description

Impact

A Denial of Service (DoS) condition was identified in Next.js. Exploitation of the bug can trigger a crash, affecting the availability of the server.

This vulnerability can affect all Next.js deployments on the affected versions.

Patches

This vulnerability was resolved in Next.js 13.5 and later. We recommend that users upgrade to a safe version.

Workarounds

There are no official workarounds for this vulnerability.

Credit

  • Thai Vu of flyseccorp.com
  • Aonan Guan (@0dd), Senior Cloud Security Engineer

Affected versions

npm

PackageVulnerableFixed in
next
>= 13.3.1, < 13.5.0
13.5.0

How to fix

Move to the fixed version or later with your package manager, update the lockfile, and run your tests. If the package only arrives through another dependency, upgrade that dependency first. If none of its releases pulls a fixed version yet, force the version with your package manager's override.

next npm → 13.5.0

npm
npm install next@13.5.0
yarn
yarn add next@13.5.0
pnpm
pnpm add next@13.5.0

Severity breakdown

CVSS 4.0 0.0

CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Attack requirements
None
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality (vulnerable system)
None
Integrity (vulnerable system)
None
Availability (vulnerable system)
High
Confidentiality (subsequent systems)
None
Integrity (subsequent systems)
None
Availability (subsequent systems)
None

CVSS 3.1 7.5

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High

Weakness

CWE-400: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

The product does not properly control the allocation and maintenance of a limited resource.

How to prevent it
  • Architecture and Design: Design throttling mechanisms into the system architecture. The best protection is to limit the amount of resources that an unauthorized user can cause to be expended. A strong authentication and access control model will help prevent such attacks from occurring in the first place. The login application should be protected against DoS attacks as much as possible. Limiting the database access, perhaps by caching result sets, can help minimize the resources expended. To further limit the potential for a DoS attack, consider tracking the rate of requests received from users and blocking requests that exceed a defined rate threshold.
  • Architecture and Design: Mitigation of resource exhaustion attacks requires that the target system either: recognizes the attack and denies that user further access for a given amount of time, or uniformly throttles all requests in order to make it more difficult to consume resources more quickly than they can again be freed. The first of these solutions is an issue in itself though, since it may allow attackers to prevent the use of the system by a particular valid user. If the attacker impersonates the valid user, they may be able to prevent the user from accessing the server in question. The second solution is simply difficult to effectively institute -- and even when properly done, it does not provide a full solution. It simply makes the attack require more resources on the part of the attacker.
  • Architecture and Design: Ensure that protocols have specific limits of scale placed on them.
  • Implementation: Ensure that all failures in resource allocation place the system into a safe posture.

References

Timeline

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  3. Latest EPSS score
AdvisorySeverityWhy it's related
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Next.js: Denial of Service in App Router using Server Actions
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Next.js has information disclosure in development server's Model Context Protocol endpoint
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Next.js has information disclosure in App Router metadata image routes via dynamicParams bypass
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GHSA-mcj8-r9mp-w47p
Next.js has cache poisoning in SSG/ISR rendering that leads to cross-user content substitution and persistent denial of service
Medium Also affects next
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