Insecure Defaults Allow MITM Over TLS

Overview Affected versions of engine.io-client do not verify certificates by default, and as such may be vulnerable to Man-in-the-Middle attacks. The vulnerability is related to the way that node.js handles the rejectUnauthorized setting. If the value is something that evaluates to false, such as...

npm security updates v2.15.1 and v3.8.3

npm security updates v2.15.1 and v3.8.3 This announcement is also covered on the npm blog:http://blog.npmjs.org/post/142036323955/fixing-a-bearer-token-vulnerability. The primary npm registry has, since late 2014, used HTTP bearer tokens to authenticate requests from the npm command-line interfac...

npm fails to restrict the actions of malicious npm packages

Overview npm allows packages to take actions that could result in a malicious npm package author to create a worm that spreads across the majority of the npm ecosystem. Description npm is the default package manager for Node.js, which is a runtime environment for developing server-side web...

Jsprime - A JavaScript Static Security Analysis Tool

Today, more and more developers are switching to JavaScript as their first choice of language. The reason is simple JavaScript has now been started to be accepted as the mainstream programming for applications, be it on the web or on the mobile; be it on client-side, be it on the server side...

Kibana 4.4.2, 4.3.3, 4.1.6 - Updated node.js versions due to upstream vulnerabilities

Same deal as last month, but we've bumped all 3 version to node v4.3.2 to cover security issues in node.js. You can read their maintenance announcement here: https://nodejs.org/en/blog/release/v4.3.2/ Check out the blog post with release notes or grab the latest version...

Malware-Jail - Sandbox for semi-automatic Javascript malware analysis and payload extraction

Sandbox for semi-automatic Javascript malware analysis and payload extraction. Written for Node.js malware-jail is written for Node's 'vm' sandbox . Currently implements WScript Windows Scripting Host context env/wscript.js , at least the part frequently used by malware. Internet browser context ...

OpenSSL updates, 1.0.2g and 1.0.1s

OpenSSL updates, 1.0.2g and 1.0.1s Updates to this post, including a schedule change are included below The OpenSSL project has announced that they will be releasing versions 1.0.2g and 1.0.1s this week, on Tuesday the 1st of March, UTC. The releases will fix "several defects" that are labelled a...

Node.js HTTP Request Smuggling Vulnerability

Joyent Node.js is the United States Joyent company's set of web applications built on top of the Google V8 JavaScript engine platform. The platform is primarily used for building highly scalable applications and writing code that can handle tens of thousands of simultaneous connections to a singl...

CVE-2016-2537

The is-my-json-valid package before 2.12.4 for Node.js has an incorrect exports'utc-millisec' regular expression, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service blocked event loop via a crafted string...

CVE-2016-2537

The is-my-json-valid package before 2.12.4 for Node.js has an incorrect exports'utc-millisec' regular expression, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service blocked event loop via a crafted string...

Design/Logic Flaw

The is-my-json-valid package before 2.12.4 for Node.js has an incorrect exports'utc-millisec' regular expression, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service blocked event loop via a crafted string...

CVE-2016-2537

CVE-2016-2537 affects the is-my-json-valid package for Node.js, where an incorrect exports["utc-millisec"] regular expression can be exploited to cause a denial-of-service by blocking the event loop. The core detail across documents is that the vulnerability arises in the is-my-json-valid module ...

CVE-2016-2537

The is-my-json-valid package before 2.12.4 for Node.js has an incorrect exports'utc-millisec' regular expression, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service blocked event loop via a crafted string...

[SECURITY] Fedora 22 Update: nodejs-0.10.42-4.fc22

Node.js is a platform built on Chrome's JavaScript runtime for easily building fast, scalable network applications. Node.js uses an event-driven, non-blocking I/O model that makes it lightweight and efficient, perfect for data-intensive real-time applications that run across distributed devices...

Mageia: Security Advisory (MGASA-2016-0080)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2016 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Updated nodejs packages fix security vulnerability

A request smuggling vulnerability was found in Node.js that can be exploited under certain unspecified circumstances CVE-2016-2086. It was reported that HTTP header parsing in Node.js is vulnerable to response splitting attacks. While Node.js has been protecting against response splitting attacks...

MGASA-2016-0080 Updated nodejs packages fix security vulnerability

A request smuggling vulnerability was found in Node.js that can be exploited under certain unspecified circumstances CVE-2016-2086. It was reported that HTTP header parsing in Node.js is vulnerable to response splitting attacks. While Node.js has been protecting against response splitting attacks...

Nodejs - Access bypass - Moderately Critical -- DRUPAL-SA-CONTRIB-2016-007

This module provides an API that other modules can use to add realtime capabilities to Drupal, specifically enabling pushing updates to open connected clients. The module doesn't disconnect unauthenticated sockets, allowing those sockets to receive broadcast messages. For sites that only serve...

[SECURITY] Fedora 23 Update: nodejs-0.10.42-4.fc23

Node.js is a platform built on Chrome's JavaScript runtime for easily building fast, scalable network applications. Node.js uses an event-driven, non-blocking I/O model that makes it lightweight and efficient, perfect for data-intensive real-time applications that run across distributed devices...

February 2016 Security Release Summary

February 2016 Security Release Summary Two weeks ago we announced the planned release of updates to all active release lines, v0.10, v0.12, v4 and v5, to fix HTTP related vulnerabilities and to upgrade the bundled versions of OpenSSL. Upon release of the OpenSSL updates we posted an impact...