Denial of Service in subtext
All versions of subtext are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS). The package fails to enforce the maxBytes configuration for payloads with chunked encoding that are written to the file system. This allows attackers to send requests with arbitrary payload sizes, which may exhaust system resources leading to Denial of Service.
Recommendation
This package is not actively maintained and has been moved to @hapi/subtext where version 6.1.2.
Affected software
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| Platform | Package | Vulnerable versions | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| npm package | subtext | >= 0.0.0 | no fix |
References
- Weakness (CWE)
CWE-400- Platform
- npm
- Package
subtext- Disclosed
- 03.09.2020
- Updated
- 11.10.2026 10:22
Sources and licenses
OSV / GitHub Advisory Database - GHSA-2mvq-xp48-4c77 - CC BY 4.0
Vulnerability history: subtext
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