http-proxy-middleware Always-Incorrect Control Flow Implementation

[sunilharan]

Describe the Bug

Summary
Medium Severity Vulnerability in http-proxy-middleware via @angular-builders/[email protected]

Objective
Address a vulnerability in http-proxy-middleware by ensuring the dependency chain is updated to a secure version and verifying correct control flow during request body processing.

Background/Context
A vulnerability has been discovered in http-proxy-middleware affecting versions prior to 2.0.8 and 3.0.4. The issue stems from an Always-Incorrect Control Flow Implementation in the fixRequestBody() function. This flaw allows the writeBody function to be called multiple times, which can lead to unexpected behavior during proxy request handling.

Dependencies:

@angular-builders/[email protected]
Vulnerable transitive dependencies on [email protected] and 2.0.7

Minimal Reproduction

Note: We can only reproduce it when we scan the project using Snyk CLI.

Expected Behavior

There should be no vulnerabilities in Snyk dashboard related to this.

Screenshots

Libs

• @angular/core version: "@angular/core": "^19.0.0",
• @angular-devkit/build-angular version: "@angular-devkit/build-angular": "^19.0.0",
• @angular-builders/{the name of the builder} version: "@angular-builders/custom-webpack": "^19.0.0",

For Tooling issues:

• Node version: v20.19.0
• Platform: