Information Exposure Affecting requestretry package, versions <7.0.0


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    Exploit Maturity
    Proof of concept
    EPSS
    0.22% (61st percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-JS-REQUESTRETRY-2411026
  • published 23 Feb 2022
  • disclosed 23 Feb 2022
  • credit Timothee Desurmont

How to fix?

Upgrade requestretry to version 7.0.0 or higher.

Overview

requestretry is a request-retry wrap nodejs request to retry http(s) requests in case of error

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Information Exposure due to missing header sanitization. When fetching a URL containing a link to an external site in the params ?url=${attacker}, the user's Cookies are leaked to the third-party application.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Snyk

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

7.5 high