5 Common Server Vulnerabilities with Node.js

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2023-03-24 09:00:08

We recently published an article about OWASP Juice Shop and got a lot of great feedback from the community, so we decided to dive a bit deeper into some security-related topics.

In this article, we’ll discuss some of the common server vulnerabilities and offer some tips on what you can do to mitigate them.

Node.js is a powerful and widely-used JavaScript runtime environment for building server-side applications. However, like any other software, Node has its own set of vulnerabilities that can lead to security issues if not properly addressed. Please do note that these vulnerabilities are not unique to Node, they can be found in every backend programming language.

These types of attacks occur when an attacker inputs malicious code into a vulnerable application and the application executes it.

An injection vulnerability might be a SQL injection, when untrusted data is concatenated into a SQL query. An attacker can inject malicious code into the query, which can then be executed by the database.