Information Exposure Affecting node package, versions [10.0.0,10.9.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.15% (52nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UPSTREAM-NODE-5811871
  • published1 Aug 2023
  • disclosed1 Aug 2023
  • creditNikita Skovoroda

Introduced: 1 Aug 2023

CVE-2018-7166  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade node to version 10.9.0 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 involving uninitialized memory handled by Buffer.alloc() in the encoding argument.

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