Information Exposure 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

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.66% (80th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UPSTREAM-NODE-2946729
  • published5 Jul 2022
  • disclosed5 Jul 2022
  • creditAlex Chernyakhovsky

Introduced: 5 Jul 2022

CVE-2022-2097  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

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 Information Exposure in the aesni_ocb_encrypt and aesni_ocb_decrypt, which reveal 16 unencrypted bytes of memory.

NOTE: Implementations using TLS or DTLS are not affected by this vulnerability.

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