CVE-2016-3956
- Source
- https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-3956
- Import Source
- https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-3956.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2016-3956
- Aliases
- Downstream
- Related
- Published
- 2016-07-02T14:59:19.417Z
- Modified
- 2026-02-13T01:07:39.657324Z
- Severity
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- 7.5 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N CVSS Calculator
- Summary
- [none]
- Details
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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.
- References
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- http://blog.npmjs.org/post/142036323955/fixing-a-bearer-token-vulnerability
- http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21980827
- https://github.com/npm/npm/commit/f67ecad59e99a03e5aad8e93cd1a086ae087cb29
- https://github.com/npm/npm/commit/fea8cc92cee02c720b58f95f14d315507ccad401
- https://github.com/npm/npm/issues/8380
- https://nodejs.org/en/blog/vulnerability/npm-tokens-leak-march-2016/
- https://github.com/npm/npm/commit/f67ecad59e99a03e5aad8e93cd1a086ae087cb29
- https://github.com/npm/npm/commit/fea8cc92cee02c720b58f95f14d315507ccad401
Affected packages
Git / github.com/npm/npm
Affected ranges
- Type
- GIT
- Repo
- https://github.com/npm/npm
- Events
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Introduced0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affectedFixedIntroduced0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affectedFixedIntroducedFixed