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Request dependency <=2.68 opens to potential memory exposure vulnerability #2336

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evilaliv3 opened this issue Jul 29, 2016 · 1 comment
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Do you want to request a feature or report a bug?
This ticket is to report a a potential security vulnerability caused by the request dependency.

What is the current behavior?
Various of the dependencies used by bower make use of a vulnerable version of the request package (<2.68) that allow potential memory exposure.

Involved dependencies are: registry-client, request-replay

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evilaliv3 added a commit to evilaliv3/bower that referenced this issue Jul 29, 2016
The commit bump the direct dependency request to version 2.74.0

In order for the fix to be complete the node-request-reply will have to be
updated as well as soon that IndigoUnited/node-request-replay#7
will be merged and a new package will be released.
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evilaliv3 commented Aug 6, 2016

could someone review this ticket?

request-replay has been patched already.
now we miss only to fix registry-client.

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