[Secure-testing-team] Bug#850322: npm: CVE-2016-3956

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Source: npm
Version: 1.4.21+ds-2
Severity: important
Tags: upstream security fixed-upstream
Forwarded: https://github.com/npm/npm/issues/8380

Hi,

the following vulnerability was published for npm.

CVE-2016-3956[0]:
| 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.

No fix has been made for 1.x versions.

If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the
CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry.

For further information see:

[0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-3956
    https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-3956
[1] https://github.com/npm/npm/issues/8380

Regards,
Salvatore