CVE-2016-3956

HIGH

npm <2.15.1,3.x <3.8.3 - Info Disclosure

Title source: llm

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 (6)

[Vendor Advisory] http://blog.npmjs.org/post/142036323955/fixing-a-bearer-token-vulnerability

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

[Patch, Third Party Advisory] https://github.com/npm/npm/commit/f67ecad59e99a03e5aad8e93cd1a086ae087cb29

[Patch, Third Party Advisory] https://github.com/npm/npm/commit/fea8cc92cee02c720b58f95f14d315507ccad401

[Third Party Advisory] https://github.com/npm/npm/issues/8380

[Vendor Advisory] https://nodejs.org/en/blog/vulnerability/npm-tokens-leak-march-2016/

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5

EPSS 0.0321

EPSS Percentile 86.8%

Attack Vector NETWORK

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Classification

CWE

CWE-200

Status draft

Affected Products (50)

ibm/sdk < 1.1.0.20

nodejs/node.js

nodejs/node.js

nodejs/node.js

nodejs/node.js

nodejs/node.js

nodejs/node.js

nodejs/node.js

nodejs/node.js

nodejs/node.js

nodejs/node.js

nodejs/node.js

nodejs/node.js

nodejs/node.js

nodejs/node.js

... and 35 more

Timeline

Published Jul 02, 2016

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026