CVE-2016-3956

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-200 Information Leak / Disclosure

Publication date:

02/07/2016

Last modified:

12/04/2025

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.

Impact

Vector 3.x

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N CVSS v3.1 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 7.50 HIGH
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Privileges Required (PR): None
User Interaction (UI): None
Scope (S): Unchanged
Confidentiality (C): High
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): None

Base Score 3.x

7.50

Severity 3.x

HIGH

Vector 2.0

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 5.00 MEDIUM
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): Physical
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): None

Base Score 2.0

5.00

Severity 2.0

MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:a:ibm:sdk::::::nodejs::*		1.1.0.20 (including)
cpe:2.3:a:ibm:sdk::::::nodejs::*		1.2.0.10 (including)
cpe:2.3:a:ibm:sdk::::::nodejs::*		4.4.1.0 (including)
cpe:2.3:a:nodejs:node.js:0.10.0:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:nodejs:node.js:0.10.1:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:nodejs:node.js:0.10.2:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:nodejs:node.js:0.10.3:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:nodejs:node.js:0.10.4:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:nodejs:node.js:0.10.5:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:nodejs:node.js:0.10.6:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:nodejs:node.js:0.10.7:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:nodejs:node.js:0.10.8:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:nodejs:node.js:0.10.9:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:nodejs:node.js:0.10.10:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:nodejs:node.js:0.10.11:::::::*

To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:a:ibm:sdk::::::nodejs::*		1.1.0.20 (including)
cpe:2.3:a:ibm:sdk::::::nodejs::*		1.2.0.10 (including)
cpe:2.3:a:ibm:sdk::::::nodejs::*		4.4.1.0 (including)
cpe:2.3:a:nodejs:node.js:0.10.0:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:nodejs:node.js:0.10.1:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:nodejs:node.js:0.10.2:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:nodejs:node.js:0.10.3:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:nodejs:node.js:0.10.4:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:nodejs:node.js:0.10.5:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:nodejs:node.js:0.10.6:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:nodejs:node.js:0.10.7:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:nodejs:node.js:0.10.8:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:nodejs:node.js:0.10.9:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:nodejs:node.js:0.10.10:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:nodejs:node.js:0.10.11:::::::*

CVE-2016-3956

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools