Authentication Bypass by Primary Weakness Affecting nodejs/node package, versions [22.0.0, 22.23.2)[24.0.0, 24.18.1)[26.0.0, 26.5.1)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.08% (1st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-NODEJSNODE-18506947
  • published2 Aug 2026
  • disclosed30 Jul 2026
  • credityottt

Introduced: 30 Jul 2026

NewCVE-2026-56850  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-305  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade nodejs/node to version 22.23.2, 24.18.1, 26.5.1 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Authentication Bypass by Primary Weakness in the HTTPS Agent. An attacker can impersonate a client by exploiting PFX object-array key collisions, which may result in mutual TLS client identities being reused across requests configured with different client certificates.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1