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)


0.0
medium

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity Low

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS 0.38% (73rd percentile)
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NVD
5.3 medium
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SUSE
5.9 medium
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Red Hat
7.4 high

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-UPSTREAM-NODE-2332185
  • published 12 Jan 2022
  • disclosed 11 Jan 2022
  • credit unknown

How 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.