HTTP Request Smuggling 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
    0.6% (79th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-UPSTREAM-NODE-2946427
  • published 10 Jul 2022
  • disclosed 8 Jul 2022
  • credit Zeyu Zhang

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 HTTP Request Smuggling when the llhttp parser in the http module does not correctly parse and validate Transfer-Encoding headers.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Snyk

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

6.5 medium
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SUSE

6.8 medium
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Red Hat

6.5 medium