{"id":"CVE-2017-16129","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2017-16129","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T21:57:31.406Z","title":"The HTTP client module superagent is vulnerable to ZIP bomb attacks.","description":"The HTTP client module superagent is vulnerable to ZIP bomb attacks. In a ZIP bomb attack, the HTTP server replies with a compressed response that becomes several magnitudes larger once uncompressed. If a client does not take special care when processing such responses, it may result in excessive CPU and/or memory consumption. An attacker might exploit such a weakness for a DoS attack. To exploit this the attacker must control the location (URL) that superagent makes a request to.","published":"2018-06-07T02:29:03.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T01:08:51.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"support@hackerone.com","cvss":{"version":"3.0","score":5.9,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-409","CWE-400"],"affected":["superagent project/superagent"],"epss":{"score":0.0174,"percentile":0.77615,"date":"2026-10-27","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (1.74%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://github.com/visionmedia/superagent/issues/1259","tags":["Issue Tracking","Patch","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"support@hackerone.com"},{"url":"https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/479","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"support@hackerone.com"},{"url":"https://github.com/visionmedia/superagent/issues/1259","tags":["Issue Tracking","Patch","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/479","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-16129","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}