Snyk vulnerability [SNYK-JS-NODEFETCH-2342118] #8985
Description
Affecting Packages/Plugins
- example-app
- @backstage/catalog-client
- @backstage/errors
- @backstage/integration
- @backstage/test-utils
- @backstage/plugin-apache-airflow
- @backstage/plugin-api-docs
- @backstage/plugin-bitrise
- @backstage/plugin-fossa
- @backstage/plugin-permission-common
- @backstage/plugin-permission-react
- @backstage/plugin-sonarqube
- @backstage/plugin-techdocs-backend
Overview
node-fetch is a light-weight module that brings window.fetch to node.js
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Information Exposure when fetching a remote url with Cookie, if it get a Location response header, it will follow that url and try to fetch that url with provided cookie. This can lead to forwarding secure headers to 3th party.
Remediation
Upgrade node-fetch to version 2.6.7, 3.1.1 or higher.