CVE-2016-3956: Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor
(updated )
The CLI in npm before 2.15.1 and 3.x before 3.8.3, as used in Node.js 0.10 before 0.10.44, 0.12 before 0.12.13, 4 before 4.4.2, and 5 before 5.10.0, includes bearer tokens with arbitrary requests, which allows remote HTTP servers to obtain sensitive information by reading Authorization headers.
References
- blog.npmjs.org/post/142036323955/fixing-a-bearer-token-vulnerability
- www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21980827
- github.com/advisories/GHSA-m5h6-hr3q-22h5
- github.com/npm/npm/commit/f67ecad59e99a03e5aad8e93cd1a086ae087cb29
- github.com/npm/npm/commit/fea8cc92cee02c720b58f95f14d315507ccad401
- github.com/npm/npm/issues/8380
- nodejs.org/en/blog/vulnerability/npm-tokens-leak-march-2016/
- nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-3956
- www.npmjs.com/advisories/98
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