DEBIAN-CVE-2016-3956

Source
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-3956
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2016-3956.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/DEBIAN-CVE-2016-3956
Upstream
Published
2016-07-02T14:59:19.417Z
Modified
2025-11-19T02:02:47.057596Z
Severity
  • 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

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

Affected packages

Debian:11 / npm

Package

Name
npm
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/npm?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
5.8.0+ds-2

Ecosystem specific

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:12 / npm

Package

Name
npm
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/npm?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
5.8.0+ds-2

Ecosystem specific

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:13 / npm

Package

Name
npm
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/npm?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
5.8.0+ds-2

Ecosystem specific

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:14 / npm

Package

Name
npm
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/npm?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
5.8.0+ds-2

Ecosystem specific

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}