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Re:The Frequency of Known Vulnerabilities in JavaScript by chiliap2 on Thursday March 09, 2017 @10:02PM (#13835984)
The article lists https://snyk.io/vuln/npm:moment:20161019 as an example of a vulnerability (although not one that is tracked). Could someone explain how a Javascript vulnerability could cause a DDoS? Even if it does cause Moment to hang, how would that affect the server?
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Re:The Frequency of Known Vulnerabilities in JavaScript by tmikaeld on Friday March 10, 2017 @01:50AM (#13836859)
A simple Ajax loop would certainly stress the server when run on a lot of clients.
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