denoland deno 1.44.0 npmrc information disclosure

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A vulnerability was found in denoland deno 1.44.0. It has been classified as problematic. The affected element is an unknown function of the component npmrc Handler. The manipulation leads to information disclosure. This vulnerability is documented as CVE-2024-37150. The attack can be initiated remotely. There is not any exploit available. Upgrading the affected component is recommended.

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A vulnerability was found in denoland deno 1.44.0 and classified as problematic. This issue affects an unknown code block of the component npmrc Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a information disclosure vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-200. The product exposes sensitive information to an actor that is not explicitly authorized to have access to that information. Impacted is confidentiality. The summary by CVE is:

An issue in `.npmrc` support in Deno 1.44.0 was discovered where Deno would send `.npmrc` credentials for the scope to the tarball URL when the registry provided URLs for a tarball on a different domain. All users relying on .npmrc are potentially affected by this vulnerability if their private registry references tarball URLs at a different domain. This includes usage of deno install subcommand, auto-install for npm: specifiers and LSP usage. It is recommended to upgrade to Deno 1.44.1 and if your private registry ever serves tarballs at a different domain to rotate your registry credentials.

It is possible to read the advisory at github.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2024-37150 since 06/03/2024. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1592 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

Upgrading to version 1.44.1 eliminates this vulnerability. Applying the patch 566adb7c0a0c0845e90a6e867a2c0ef5d2ada575 is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at github.com. The best possible mitigation is suggested to be upgrading to the latest version.

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• denoland

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• deno

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• 1.44.0

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• open-source

Website

• Product: https://github.com/denoland/deno/

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