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Security checkJanuary 09, 2023

Memory Exposure in tunnel-agent

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Medium severitynpmtunnel-agent

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Description

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.

Recommendation

Update the tunnel-agent package to the latest compatible version. Followings are version details:

  • Affected version(s): < 0.6.0
  • Patched version(s): 0.6.0

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