Information Exposure Affecting node package, versions [4.0.0,4.8.4)[5.0.0,6.11.1)[7.0.0,7.10.1)[8.0.0,8.1.4)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
3.31% (87th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UPSTREAM-NODE-72325
  • published3 Jan 2019
  • disclosed2 Jan 2019
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 2 Jan 2019

CVE-2017-1000381  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade node to version 4.8.4, 6.11.1, 7.10.1, 8.1.4 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. The function ares_parse_naptr_reply(), which is used for parsing NAPTR responses, could be triggered to read memory outside of the given input buffer if the passed in DNS response packet was crafted in a particular way.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1