Information Exposure Affecting npm package, versions *
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
Confidentiality
High
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.24% (62nd
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN8-NPM-271437
- published 2 Jul 2016
- disclosed 2 Jul 2016
Introduced: 2 Jul 2016
CVE-2016-3956 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
There is no fixed version for Debian:8
npm
.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream npm
package and not the npm
package as distributed by Debian
.
See How to fix?
for Debian:8
relevant fixed versions and status.
The CLI in npm before 2.15.1 and 3.x before 3.8.3, as used in Node.js 0.10 before 0.10.44, 0.12 before 0.12.13, 4 before 4.4.2, and 5 before 5.10.0, includes bearer tokens with arbitrary requests, which allows remote HTTP servers to obtain sensitive information by reading Authorization headers.
References
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-3956
- https://github.com/npm/npm/commit/f67ecad59e99a03e5aad8e93cd1a086ae087cb29
- https://github.com/npm/npm/commit/fea8cc92cee02c720b58f95f14d315507ccad401
- https://github.com/npm/npm/issues/8380
- http://blog.npmjs.org/post/142036323955/fixing-a-bearer-token-vulnerability
- https://nodejs.org/en/blog/vulnerability/npm-tokens-leak-march-2016/
- http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21980827
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2016-3956