Information Exposure The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package npm (opens in a new tab)
Threat Intelligence
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Test your applications- Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1910-NPM-666247
- published2 Jul 2016
- disclosed2 Jul 2016
Introduced: 2 Jul 2016
CVE-2016-3956 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:19.10.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream npm package and not the npm package as distributed by Ubuntu.
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
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2016-3956
- 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