CVE-2015-9238
Insecure Comparison in secure-compare
EPSS 1.5%
Description
Versions of `secure-compare` prior to 3.0.1 are affected by a vulnerability that results in the package always returning true when comparing two strings of the same length, despite differences in the contents of those strings. ## Recommendation Upgrade to version 3.0.1 or later.
How to fix CVE-2015-9238
To remediate CVE-2015-9238, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- npm/secure-compare—upgrade to 3.0.1 or later
Is CVE-2015-9238 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 1.5%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (1)
- from 0, < 3.0.1