{"id":"CVE-2014-4179","aliases":["GHSA-gg6m-fhqv-hg56"],"status":"published","title":"Denial of Service in yar","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.\n\nWhen an invalid encryped session cookie value is provided, the process will crash.\n\n\n## Recommendation\n\nUpdate to version 2.2.0 or later.","severity":{"version":"3.1","score":7.5,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H","level":"high","from":"ghsa"},"facts":{"in_kev":false,"known_exploited":false,"public_exploit":false,"fix_available":true},"cwes":["CWE-400"],"published":"2020-09-01T15:15:36Z","modified":"2023-11-08T03:57:41Z","fixes":[{"ecosystem":"npm","package":"yar","fixed_in":["2.2.0"],"sources":["ghsa","osv"]}],"affected":[{"source":"ghsa","ecosystem":"npm","package":"yar","ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"2.2.0"}]}]},{"source":"osv","ecosystem":"npm","package":"yar","ranges":[{"type":"SEMVER","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"2.2.0"}]}]}],"references":[{"url":"https://github.com/spumko/yar/issues/34","tags":["web"]},{"url":"https://www.npmjs.com/advisories/44","tags":["web"]},{"url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-4179","tags":["advisory"]},{"url":"https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-gg6m-fhqv-hg56"},{"url":"https://github.com/spumko/yar","tags":["web"]}],"sources":{"ghsa":[{"id":"GHSA-gg6m-fhqv-hg56","title":"Denial of Service in yar","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.\n\nWhen an invalid encryped session cookie value is provided, the process will crash.\n\n\n## Recommendation\n\nUpdate to version 2.2.0 or later.","status":"published","published":"2020-09-01T15:15:36Z","modified":"2023-01-09T05:03:42Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":7.5,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H","level":"high"}],"cwes":["CWE-400"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T14:36:06.317379Z"}],"osv":[{"id":"GHSA-gg6m-fhqv-hg56","title":"Denial of Service in yar","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.\n\nWhen an invalid encryped session cookie value is provided, the process will crash.\n\n\n## Recommendation\n\nUpdate to version 2.2.0 or later.","status":"published","published":"2020-09-01T15:15:36Z","modified":"2023-11-08T03:57:41.602298Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":7.5,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H","level":"high"}],"cwes":["CWE-400"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T15:46:47.822182Z"}]}}