Insecure Encryption Affecting bcrypt package, versions <5.0.0


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.12% (49th percentile)

Do your applications use this vulnerable package?

In a few clicks we can analyze your entire application and see what components are vulnerable in your application, and suggest you quick fixes.

Test your applications
  • Snyk ID SNYK-JS-BCRYPT-572911
  • published 1 Jul 2020
  • disclosed 21 Jun 2020
  • credit pool683

How to fix?

Upgrade bcrypt to version 5.0.0 or higher.

Overview

bcrypt is an A library to help you hash passwords.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Insecure Encryption. Data is truncated wrong when its length is greater than 255 bytes.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
Expand this section

Snyk

Recommended
7.5 high
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    None
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    None
  • Integrity (I)
    High
  • Availability (A)
    None
Expand this section

NVD

7.5 high