Version Details and Security Vulnerabilities

In versions of simple-get prior to 4.0.1, 3.1.1, and 2.8.2, when fetching a remote url with a cookie location response, headers will be followed, potentially resulting in an exposure of the session cookie to a third party.

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.

Proof-of-concept:

require('request')({
  method: 'GET',
  uri: 'http://www.example.com',
  tunnel: true,
  proxy:{
    protocol: 'http:',
    host:'127.0.0.1',
    port:8080,
    auth:USERSUPPLIEDINPUT // number
  }
});

Recommendation

Update to version 0.6.0 or later.