Node.js HTTP Pipelining Denial of Service
Description
This module exploits a Denial of Service (DoS) condition in the HTTP parser of Node.js versions released before 0.10.21 and 0.8.26. The attack sends many pipelined HTTP requests on a single connection, which causes unbounded memory allocation when the client does not read the responses.
Author(s)
- Marek Majkowski
- titanous
- joev <joev@metasploit.com>
Development
Module Options
To display the available options, load the module within the Metasploit console and run the commands 'show options' or 'show advanced':
msf > use auxiliary/dos/http/nodejs_pipelining
msf auxiliary(nodejs_pipelining) > show actions
...actions...
msf auxiliary(nodejs_pipelining) > set ACTION < action-name >
msf auxiliary(nodejs_pipelining) > show options
...show and set options...
msf auxiliary(nodejs_pipelining) > run 
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