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.
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?
Honestly let it burn.
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
Yeah, so here’s the thing. People keep trying to bash on PHP as if anything software isn’t manmade and comes baked with flaws that can be exploited. It’s the single reason why cybersecurity products are never going to stop being used because no matter what, it’s based on something somebody made.
It’s going to be flawed or be exploitable by some means. Yesterday it was Log4J, now it’s PHP, tomorrow it will be something else. It will never end. Companies deliberately also use this to force you to upgrade because they’ve abandoned “legacy” products that still work but which they no longer choose to maintain because they want more money and need to stifle you for it somehow.
Has pure HTML (no css, no javascript) ever had a serious security issue? On the server side obviously not (outside of the apache/nginx/etc. having application bugs), but even on the client side has there ever been an exploit?
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.
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.
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
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
This what you get for running JS as your back end!
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?
No. Put the Genie back in the bottle. We need air traffic control for this shit. Or we just have to shut down all the PHP and NodeJs servers. (This is sarcasm…mostly.)
Uh oh, the cracks in our software castles get bigger.
as an aside, i think the title is too sensationalist? click-baity?
INB4 Pheonix devs
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.
Most of it is working around weaknesses of tcp anyway.
