[DepShield] (CVSS 7.5) Vulnerability due to usage of http-proxy:1.18.1

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Vulnerabilities

DepShield reports that this application's usage of http-proxy:1.18.1 results in the following vulnerability(s):

• (CVSS 7.5) CWE-400: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption ('Resource Exhaustion')

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Occurrences

http-proxy:1.18.1 is a transitive dependency introduced by the following direct dependency(s):

• react-styleguidist:11.1.6         └─ webpack-dev-server:3.11.2               └─ http-proxy-middleware:0.19.1                     └─ http-proxy:1.18.1

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Micro-Learning Topic: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption (CWE 400)

The software does not properly control the allocation and maintenance of a limited resource thereby enabling an actor to influence the amount of resources consumed, eventually leading to the exhaustion of available resources.

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