DNS Rebinding Affecting webtorrent package, versions <0.105.2


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-JS-WEBTORRENT-456068
  • published 31 Jul 2019
  • disclosed 30 Jul 2019
  • credit feross

Introduced: 30 Jul 2019

CVE NOT AVAILABLE CWE-350 Open this link 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.

References

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Snyk

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