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tough-cookie 2.2.2 vulnerabilities, and the version that fixes all of them

tough-cookie 2.2.2 has 3 known vulnerabilities (1 rated high or critical); 4.1.3 fixes all of them. The maintainers deprecated this release.

npm (opens in a new tab) describes it as “RFC6265 Cookies and Cookie Jar for node.js”

Known vulnerabilities
3
1 rated high or critical
Released
Mar 9, 2016
Latest is 6.0.2
Downloads last week
101K
Under 1% of tough-cookie downloads
Licence
BSD-3-Clause
OpenSSF Scorecard
6.6/10
salesforceeng/tough-cookie (opens in a new tab)
Dependencies
None
Resolved by deps.dev
Status
Deprecated release

What to upgrade to

4.1.3 is the closest release with no known vulnerabilities.

  • 2.5.0

    Newest 2.x release. Released Nov 26, 2018.

    1 known vulnerability, worst rated warning

  • 4.1.3Upgrade to this

    Fixes all 3 known vulnerabilities. Released Jun 5, 2023.

    No known vulnerabilities

  • 6.0.2

    Latest release. Released Jul 7, 2026.

    No known vulnerabilities

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Findings

Every advisory for tough-cookie 2.2.2

Known exploited first (CISA KEV), then by how likely they are to be exploited (FIRST EPSS), then by severity. Each id links to its OSV.dev record.

  1. CriticalCVE-2017-15010 on OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)GHSA-g7q5-pjjr-gqvpEPSS: top 12%

    Regular Expression Denial of Service in tough-cookie

    Fixed in 2.3.3. Published Jul 24, 2018.

  2. WarningCVE-2023-26136 on OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)GHSA-72xf-g2v4-qvf3EPSS: top 15%

    tough-cookie Prototype Pollution vulnerability

    Fixed in 4.1.3. Published Jul 1, 2023.

  3. WarningCVE-2016-1000232 on OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)GHSA-qhv9-728r-6jqgEPSS: top 17%

    ReDoS via long string of semicolons in tough-cookie

    Fixed in 2.3.0. Published Oct 10, 2018.

Who is still on a vulnerable tough-cookie

12% of last week’s 141.2M tough-cookie downloads went to versions with known vulnerabilities.

From npm’s per-version download counts for the last 7 days, each version checked against OSV.dev. The versions checked cover over 99% of downloads.

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How this page is checked

StackPrism asks OSV.dev which advisories affect exactly tough-cookie 2.2.2, merges duplicates filed under several ids, and ranks them with CISA’s Known Exploited Vulnerabilities list and FIRST EPSS. Release dates and deprecation come from deps.dev and npm. No AI writes this page: every sentence comes from that data, refreshed every few hours.

Last checked against npm, OSV.dev, deps.dev, CISA KEV and FIRST EPSS.