Server secret was included in static assets and served to clients

Description

Server JWT signing secret was included in static assets and served to clients.

This ALLOWS Flood’s builtin authentication to be bypassed.

Recommendation

Update the flood package to the latest compatible version. Followings are version details:

• Affected version(s): >= 2.0.0, < 3.0.0
• Patched version(s): 3.0.0

References

• GHSA-r587-7jh2-4qr3

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Tags:

npm

flood