WS-2018-0096 High Severity Vulnerability detected by WhiteSource

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WS-2018-0096 - High Severity Vulnerability

Vulnerable Library - base64url-2.0.0.tgz

For encoding to/from base64urls

path: null

Library home page: https://registry.npmjs.org/base64url/-/base64url-2.0.0.tgz

Dependency Hierarchy:

• jsonwebtoken-8.1.1.tgz (Root Library)
  • jws-3.1.4.tgz
    • ❌ base64url-2.0.0.tgz (Vulnerable Library)

Vulnerability Details

Versions of base64url before 3.0.0 are vulnerable to to out-of-bounds reads as it allocates uninitialized Buffers when number is passed in input on Node.js 4.x and below.

Publish Date: 2018-05-16

URL: WS-2018-0096

CVSS 2 Score Details (7.1)

Base Score Metrics not available

Suggested Fix

Type: Upgrade version

Origin: https://hackerone.com/reports/321687

Release Date: 2019-01-24

Fix Resolution: 3.0.0

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