vulnerability

Ubuntu: USN-4785-1 (CVE-2016-3956): npm vulnerability

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
Jul 2, 2016
Added
Mar 22, 2023
Modified
Mar 27, 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

ubuntu-pro-upgrade-npm
Title
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