Vulnerability CVE-2016-3956
Published: 2016-07-02

Description:
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.

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
5/10
2.9/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
None
None
Affected software
NPM -> NPM 
Nodejs -> Node.js 
IBM -> SDK 

 References:
https://nodejs.org/en/blog/vulnerability/npm-tokens-leak-march-2016/
https://github.com/npm/npm/issues/8380
https://github.com/npm/npm/commit/fea8cc92cee02c720b58f95f14d315507ccad401
https://github.com/npm/npm/commit/f67ecad59e99a03e5aad8e93cd1a086ae087cb29
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21980827
http://blog.npmjs.org/post/142036323955/fixing-a-bearer-token-vulnerability
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