WS-2018-0076 Medium Severity Vulnerability detected by WhiteSource

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WS-2018-0076 - Medium Severity Vulnerability

Vulnerable Library - tunnel-agent-0.4.3.tgz

HTTP proxy tunneling agent. Formerly part of mikeal/request, now a standalone module.

path: /tmp/git/Hardware-con-Nodejs/node_modules/serialport/node_modules/node-pre-gyp/node_modules/request/node_modules/tunnel-agent/package.json

Library home page: https://registry.npmjs.org/tunnel-agent/-/tunnel-agent-0.4.3.tgz

Dependency Hierarchy:

• serialport-4.0.7.tgz (Root Library)
  • node-pre-gyp-0.6.32.tgz
    • request-2.79.0.tgz
      • ❌ tunnel-agent-0.4.3.tgz (Vulnerable Library)

Vulnerability Details

Versions of tunnel-agent before 0.6.0 are vulnerable to memory exposure.

This is exploitable if user supplied input is provided to the auth value and is a number.

Publish Date: 2018-04-25

URL: WS-2018-0076

CVSS 2 Score Details (5.0)

Base Score Metrics not available

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