Out-of-bounds Read Affecting node package, versions [15.0.0,16.4.1)[13.0.0,14.17.2)[,12.22.2)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team. Learn more

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.74% (72nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UPSTREAM-NODE-1315790
  • published2 Jul 2021
  • disclosed2 Jul 2021
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 2 Jul 2021

CVE-2021-22918  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-125  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade node to version 16.4.1, 14.17.2, 12.22.2 or higher.

Overview

node is a JavaScript runtime built on Chrome's V8 JavaScript engine.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-bounds Read in libuv's uv__idna_toascii() function which is used to convert strings to ASCII. This is called by Node's dns module's lookup() function and can lead to information disclosures or crashes.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1