Improper Certificate Validation Affecting node package, versions [,12.22.9) [14.0.0,14.18.3) [16.0.0,16.13.2) [17.0.0,17.3.1)
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.38% (73rd
percentile)
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- published 12 Jan 2022
- disclosed 11 Jan 2022
- credit unknown
Introduced: 11 Jan 2022
CVE-2021-44533 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade node
to version 12.22.9, 14.18.3, 16.13.2, 17.3.1 or higher.
Overview
node is a JavaScript runtime built on Chrome's V8 JavaScript engine.
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Certificate Validation which is not handling multi-value Relative Distinguished Names correctly. Attackers could craft certificate subjects in order to inject a Common Name that would allow bypassing the certificate subject verification.