What is GHSA-57cf-349j-352g?

GHSA-57cf-349j-352g is a security advisory published by GitHub Security Advisories with Medium severity. Out-of-bounds Read in npmconf

Why does GHSA-57cf-349j-352g have no CVE ID yet?

GitHub Security Advisories published this advisory directly to customers before NVD assigned a CVE ID. This is the embargo-window disclosure pattern — vendors notify customers on day 0; NVD's public record follows days to weeks later.

Which products are affected by GHSA-57cf-349j-352g?

GHSA-57cf-349j-352g affects 1 product, including: npm/npmconf:\u003c 2.1.3.

GHSA-57cf-349j-352gMediumDisclosed before NVD

Out-of-bounds Read in npmconf

Vendor

GitHub Security Advisories

Published

June 12, 2019

Last Modified

January 9, 2023

📋 Description

Versions of npmconf before 2.1.3 allocate and write to disk uninitialized memory contents when a typed number is passed as input on Node.js 4.x.

Recommendation

Update to version 2.1.3 or later. Consider switching to another config storage mechanism, as npmconf is deprecated and should not be used.

🎯 Affected products1

npm/npmconf:< 2.1.3

🔗 References (3)

https://hackerone.com/reports/320269
https://www.npmjs.com/advisories/653
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-57cf-349j-352g