Information Exposure Affecting node package, versions [6.0.0,6.17.0) [8.0.0,8.15.1)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-UPSTREAM-NODE-173739
- published 28 Feb 2019
- disclosed 26 Feb 2019
- credit Jan Maybach and Marco Pracucci
Introduced: 26 Feb 2019
CVE-2019-1559 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade node to version 6.17.0, 8.15.1 or higher.
Overview
node is a JavaScript runtime built on Chrome's V8 JavaScript engine.
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Information Exposure. Under certain circumstances, a TLS server can be forced to respond differently to a client if a zero-byte record is received with an invalid padding compared to a zero-byte record with an invalid MAC. This can be used as the basis of a padding oracle attack to decrypt data.
Only TLS connections using certain ciphersuites executing under certain conditions are exploitable. Node are currently unable to determine whether the use of OpenSSL in Node.js exposes this vulnerability. They are taking a cautionary approach and recommending the same for users.