CVE-2016-3956 Information

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.

CVSS Vector

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

Reference

http://blog.npmjs.org/post/142036323955/fixing-a-bearer-token-vulnerability http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21980827 https://github.com/npm/npm/commit/f67ecad59e99a03e5aad8e93cd1a086ae087cb29 https://github.com/npm/npm/commit/fea8cc92cee02c720b58f95f14d315507ccad401 https://github.com/npm/npm/issues/8380 https://nodejs.org/en/blog/vulnerability/npm-tokens-leak-march-2016/

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

NONE

Base Score

NONE

Base Severity

7.5