Rapid7

vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2016-3956: npm -- security update

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
Jul 2, 2016
Added
Jul 30, 2024
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

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.

Solution

debian-upgrade-npm
Title
Rapid7 Labs

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