CVEvulnerability
CVE-2016-3956
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2016-07-02
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-200
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.
Affected configurations
• ibm sdk (<= 1.1.0.20)
• ibm sdk (<= 1.2.0.10)
• ibm sdk (<= 4.4.1.0)
• nodejs node.js 0.10.0
• nodejs node.js 0.10.1
• nodejs node.js 0.10.2
• nodejs node.js 0.10.3
• nodejs node.js 0.10.4
• nodejs node.js 0.10.5
• nodejs node.js 0.10.6
• nodejs node.js 0.10.7
• nodejs node.js 0.10.8
• nodejs node.js 0.10.9
• nodejs node.js 0.10.10
• nodejs node.js 0.10.11
• nodejs node.js 0.10.12
• nodejs node.js 0.10.13
• nodejs node.js 0.10.14
• nodejs node.js 0.10.15
• nodejs node.js 0.10.16
• nodejs node.js 0.10.16-isaacs-manual
• nodejs node.js 0.10.17
• nodejs node.js 0.10.18
• nodejs node.js 0.10.19
• nodejs node.js 0.10.20
• nodejs node.js 0.10.21
• nodejs node.js 0.10.22
• nodejs node.js 0.10.23
• nodejs node.js 0.10.24
• nodejs node.js 0.10.25
• nodejs node.js 0.10.26
• nodejs node.js 0.10.27
• nodejs node.js 0.10.28
• nodejs node.js 0.10.29
• nodejs node.js 0.10.30
• nodejs node.js 0.10.31
• nodejs node.js 0.10.32
• nodejs node.js 0.10.33
• nodejs node.js 0.10.34
• nodejs node.js 0.10.35
• nodejs node.js 0.10.36
• nodejs node.js 0.10.37
• nodejs node.js 0.10.38
• nodejs node.js 0.10.39
• nodejs node.js 0.10.40
• nodejs node.js 0.10.41
• nodejs node.js 0.12.0
• nodejs node.js 0.12.1
• nodejs node.js 0.12.2
• nodejs node.js 0.12.3
• nodejs node.js 0.12.4
• nodejs node.js 0.12.5
• nodejs node.js 0.12.6
• nodejs node.js 0.12.7
• nodejs node.js 0.12.8
• nodejs node.js 0.12.9
• nodejs node.js 4.0.0
• nodejs node.js 4.1.0
• nodejs node.js 4.1.1
• nodejs node.js 4.1.2
… and 29 more
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-200 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor weakness
References
- http://blog.npmjs.org/post/142036323955/fixing-a-bearer-token-vulnerability Vendor Advisory
- http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21980827 Vendor Advisory
- https://github.com/npm/npm/commit/f67ecad59e99a03e5aad8e93cd1a086ae087cb29 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/npm/npm/commit/fea8cc92cee02c720b58f95f14d315507ccad401 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/npm/npm/issues/8380 Third Party Advisory
- https://nodejs.org/en/blog/vulnerability/npm-tokens-leak-march-2016/ Vendor Advisory
- http://blog.npmjs.org/post/142036323955/fixing-a-bearer-token-vulnerability Vendor Advisory
- http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21980827 Vendor Advisory
- https://github.com/npm/npm/commit/f67ecad59e99a03e5aad8e93cd1a086ae087cb29 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/npm/npm/commit/fea8cc92cee02c720b58f95f14d315507ccad401 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/npm/npm/issues/8380 Third Party Advisory
- https://nodejs.org/en/blog/vulnerability/npm-tokens-leak-march-2016/ Vendor Advisory