CVE-2016-3956 in mpm

Summary

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.

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• Reservation: 04/05/2016
• Disclosure: 07/02/2016
• Moderation: VulDB entry created
• Entries: VDB-88539 (1)
• CPE: ready
• CWE: CWE-200 (Confirmed)
• CVSS: 7.5
• EPSS: 0.03208
• Activities: Very Low

Sources

• MITRE: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-3956
• NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-3956
• CVE Details: https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2016-3956/