THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2016-3956
HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2016-3956

Sdk vulnerability

CVSS
7.5
EPSS
6.7%
EPSS pct
93th
Exploited
No known
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.
Affected vendor
Ibm
Affected product
Sdk
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Weakness type (CWE)
  • CWE-200 — Exposure of Sensitive Information
Published
2016-07-02

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no privileges, no user interaction. Successful exploitation leads to high impact to confidentiality.

Its EPSS score of 6.7% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 93% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2016-3956

  • Confirm whether Ibm Sdk is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2016-3956.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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