Liran Tal • 4/16/2023

Disclosing uncontrolled resource consumption in xmlhttprequest library

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The article details a security vulnerability (CWE-400) discovered in the xmlhttprequest npm library, which lacks timeout controls for outgoing HTTP requests. This allows attackers to force connections to hang indefinitely, potentially saturating server I/O resources. It includes proof-of-concept exploit code and discusses the maintainer's response.

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