Affected Node.js versions can be exploited to perform HTTP desync attacks and deliver malicious payloads to unsuspecting users. The payloads can be crafted by an attacker to hijack user sessions, poison cookies, perform clickjacking, and a multitude of other attacks depending on the architecture of the underlying system.

Downloads & release details

Node.js v10.19.0 (LTS) - https://nodejs.org/en/blog/release/v10.19.0/ Node.js v12.15.0 (LTS) - https://nodejs.org/en/blog/release/v12.15.0/ Node.js v13.8.0 (LTS) - https://nodejs.org/en/blog/release/v13.8.0/

HTTP header values do not have trailing OWS trimmed

An encoding error flaw exists in the Node.js code that is used to read a peer certificate in the TLS client authentication. An attacker can use this flaw to crash the process used to handle TLS client authentication.