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CVE-2022-25940: Denial of Service (DoS)

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2022-12-20 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-20

Description

All versions of package lite-server are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS) when an attacker sends an HTTP request and includes control characters that the decodeURI() function is unable to parse.

Affected products

• lite-server: all versions

References

• https://gist.github.com/lirantal/832382155e00da92bfd8bb3adea474eb
• https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JAVA-ORGWEBJARSNPM-3175617
• https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-LITESERVER-3153540
• https://gist.github.com/lirantal/832382155e00da92bfd8bb3adea474eb
• https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JAVA-ORGWEBJARSNPM-3175617
• https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-LITESERVER-3153540

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