DNS Rebinding Affecting webtorrent package, versions <0.105.2


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JS-WEBTORRENT-456068
  • published31 Jul 2019
  • disclosed30 Jul 2019
  • creditfeross

Introduced: 30 Jul 2019

CVE NOT AVAILABLE CWE-350  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade webtorrent to version 0.105.2 or higher.

Overview

webtorrent is a streaming torrent client for node.js and the browser.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to DNS Rebinding. When the request hostname does not match the user-provided opts.hostname value. It omits the Access-Control-Allow-Origin header, instead of stop processing the request and return nothing.

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