Node.js has just released fixes for 10 security vulnerabilities that could put node-powered applications at risk and is urging everyone to update their systems.
JavaScript should never have been used that way to begin with.
Why are people mad? These issues existed and now they don’t. It’s not like the researchers created them
While the world reels from websites being taken down before critical PHP patches were released
Is it just me or did anyone else not even notice outside of articles lol… It was all resolved by the time I got off work.
It’s not resolved until everyone installs the patch. And there in lies the problem.
An important point yes and I do understand that, but the major players like Steam were updated and done before I knew it. I have no doubt this could come back to bite companies/people lagging behind over the next few years, but the impact to me from websites being taken down was 0, which was my point.
some sites in my region that people use went down temporarily, but i never used them.
Imagine working in IT security. How bad a time are you having right now? Are we expecting things to become better or worse the next few months?
Am in IT. These last few days were pretty annoying. 3 mandatory meetings a day. Scrambling to find the right person for our 3rd party stacks.
The fix was pretty easy once we had it. Just annoyed that this is going to only get worse.
When you’ve been at battle stations for 12 years it just feels like another week.
Open a ticket and add it to the list.
Honestly let it burn.
Not as bad as heart bleed
I am… well sorta. My team has to deal with the cleanup and repercussions at least. Let’s just say this week was not fun. At all.
In addition to the eMudhra certs and the php issue, there were also issues with python, Oracle, Java, and node.js. The certs and php were definitely the highest profile. They shut down incoming traffic to university web servers for the php one. The certs would have been more of a problem if we had extremely short expiration times
Nothing wrong with static sites!
That would be the best result if everyone just went back to static sites.
That’s why my site will always be html monke.
I mean I’ll update my Node version, but until someone actually finds an exploit chain on a real system (instead of a vibecoded PoC) I don’t see any reason to panic. All these "could"s and "would"s in the article suggest that it’s kind of a nothing-burger imo
Uhm. There’s a release called Node2Shell, linked in the article.
Who cares if it’s vibecoded? The exploit is the exploit.
If it’s really a PoC, it would actually execute and therefore exploit something (otherwise it wouldn’t be a proof). In which case it doesn’t matter if it’s vibecoded or not. If you succeed in breaching a system with it, there’s an issue that needs to be fixed.
That’s exactly the thing. They call themselves PoCs, but most of the time the exploit chain that they “prove” relies on some extremely unrealistic condition, like the intruder already having elevated privileges. Or it’s just completely made up and the PoC only “works” because the AI changed the source code. It’s incredibly unreliable.
I see. Yeah then it’s crap.
Pure sensationalism. We should celebrate new tools helping us to make oir software safer … but, nah, the end is nigh … start digging, and buy non-perishables, bullets, and lube
every time the sun rises, shines and sets; a million new node vulnerabilities are discovered
be careful, obviously, but don’t let it turn your entire nervous system into pure crystallized cortisol
you can deal with it on Monday
It is kinda funny to hear the manager say “Brotli” as if it were some cursed ancient artefact tho. I’m down to not tell the managers that this is overblown bs. Let them think that we saved the system from certain doom.
This what you get for running JS as your back end!
While it’s a bit opportunistic to blame JS in the backend in this case, I despise JS in the backend enough to happily join you.
Serves you well JS enthusiasts, your programming language is the only one that I despise more the more I learn about it. :P
This always struck me as a rather silly idea, to be honest.
Now we’ve come full circle. I have a vendor who is insisting that I use node.js and pull their code from their NPM repository from the same… For frontend code. Just, have the entire contents of your (their) node_modules folder exposed to the public internet at all times. Isn’t this just Javascript with extra steps?
Maybe like… code your backend in a real programming language?
HTML 1.0
cgi-bin
I’ve not heard of any recent COBOL vulnerabilities
Too high level - real devs code in assembler
Use web assembly, got it.
