CVE-2016-3956

high

Description

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

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https://github.com/npm/npm/issues/8380

https://github.com/npm/npm/commit/fea8cc92cee02c720b58f95f14d315507ccad401

https://github.com/npm/npm/commit/f67ecad59e99a03e5aad8e93cd1a086ae087cb29

https://nodejs.org/en/blog/vulnerability/npm-tokens-leak-march-2016/

http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21980827

http://blog.npmjs.org/post/142036323955/fixing-a-bearer-token-vulnerability

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2016-07-02

Updated: 2025-04-12

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00589