(Update 24-October-2017) Releases available Summary Updates are now available for all active Node.js release lines. These include the fix for the vulnerability identified in the initial announcement. We recommend that all users upgrade as soon as possible. Downloads Node.js v8 (Current) Node.js v6 (LTS “Boron”) Node.js v4 (LTS “Argon”) Node.js-specific Read more…
Path Validation Vulnerability (Updated 29-September-2017 – CVE assigned) The Node.js project released a new version of 8.x this week which incorporates a security fix. Impact Version 8.5.0 of Node.js is vulnerable. 4.x and 6.x versions are NOT vulnerable. Downloads Node.js 8 (Current) Node.js-specific security flaws Node.js version 8.5.0 included a Read more…
Update The OpenSSL project has released a description of the issue fixed in the OpenSSL 1.1.1g update. It only affects a function which is not called by Node.js (or its dependencies), and as such, does not affect Node.js. No Node.js security releases are required. For more information, see the OpenSSL Read more…
(Update 6-February-2020) Security releases available Updates are now available for all active Node.js release lines for the following issues. HTTP request smuggling using malformed Transfer-Encoding header (Critical) (CVE-2019-15605) Affected Node.js versions can be exploited to perform HTTP desync attacks and deliver malicious payloads to unsuspecting users. The payloads can be Read more…
(Update 18-December-2019) Releases available These releases update npm to v6.13.4 to address three vulnerabilities described below. All current release lines were affected. At this time, CVEs have been requested by npm, Inc. and are pending review. See https://twitter.com/ahmadnassri/status/1205132161961123841 for more information. Global 1node_modules Binary Overwrite Versions of the npm CLI Read more…
Summary The OpenSSL Security releases of September 10th, 2019 do not affect Node.js. Analysis Our assessment of the security advisory is: ECDSA remote timing attack (CVE-2019-1547) Not affected. Node supports only named curves for ECDSA signing. Fork Protection (CVE-2019-1549) Not affected. Node.js always call 1exec() after 1fork() so will not Read more…
Summary The Node.js project may be releasing new versions across all of its supported release lines early next week to incorporate upstream patches from OpenSSL. Please read on for full details. OpenSSL The OpenSSL project announced this week that they will be releasing versions 1.0.2t and 1.1.1d on the 10th Read more…
Node.js, as well as many other implementations of HTTP/2, have been found vulnerable to Denial of Service attacks. See https://github.com/Netflix/security-bulletins/blob/master/advisories/third-party/2019-002.md for more information. Updates are now available for all active Node.js release lines, including Linux ARMv6 builds for Node.js 8.x (which had been delayed). We recommend that all Node.js users Read more…
(Update 28-February-2018) Security releases available Summary Updates are now available for all active Node.js release lines. In addition to fixes for security flaws in Node.js, they also include upgrades of Node.js 6 and 8 to OpenSSL 1.0.2r which contains a fix for a moderate severity security vulnerability. The original announcement Read more…
(Update 27-November-2018) Security releases available Summary Updates are now available for all active Node.js release lines. These include fixes for the vulnerabilities identified in the initial announcement (below). They also include upgrades of Node.js 6 and 8 to OpenSSL 1.0.2q, and upgrades of Node.js 10 and 11 to OpenSSL 1.1.0j. Read more…
