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High · 7.5 CVE-2014-4179 GHSA-gg6m-fhqv-hg56

Denial of Service in yar

Published Sep 1, 2020 · Updated Nov 8, 2023 · Assigned by GHSA

Description

Versions of `yar` prior to 2.2.0 are affected by a denial of service vulnerability related to an invalid encrypted session cookie value.

When an invalid encryped session cookie value is provided, the process will crash.

## Recommendation

Update to version 2.2.0 or later.

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
npm yar < 2.2.0 2.2.0 GHSA-gg6m-fhqv-hg56

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