Man-in-the-Middle (MitM) Affecting node package, versions [4.0.0,4.4.4)[5.0.0,5.11.1)[6.0.0,6.1.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Proof of Concept
EPSS
89.06% (100th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UPSTREAM-NODE-72346
  • published12 Dec 2018
  • disclosed5 Apr 2016
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 5 Apr 2016

CVE-2016-2107  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-300  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade node.js to versions 4.4.4, 5.11.1, 6.1.0 or higher.

Overview

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

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Man-in-the-Middle (MitM) attacks. An attacker may be able to execute a padding oracle attack to decrypt traffic when a connection uses an AES-CBC cipher and the server runs on an Intel CPU supporting AES-NI.

CVSS Base Scores

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