DNS Rebinding Affecting node package, versions [,14.20.0) [15.0.0,16.16.0) [17.0.0,18.5.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.11% (45th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-UPSTREAM-NODE-2946423
  • published 10 Jul 2022
  • disclosed 8 Jul 2022
  • credit Axel Chon

How to fix?

Upgrade node to version 14.20.0, 16.16.0, 18.5.0 or higher.

Overview

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

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to DNS Rebinding by bypassing IsAllowedHost because IsIPAddress does not properly check if an IP address is invalid or not. This vulnerability is a bypass of CVE-2021-22884.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Snyk

5.9 medium
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    High
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    None
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    None
  • Integrity (I)
    None
  • Availability (A)
    High
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NVD

8.1 high
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SUSE

7.5 high
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Red Hat

7.5 high