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

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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
07/02/2016
Created
03/29/2023
Added
03/22/2023
Modified
03/22/2023

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(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-npm

References

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