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Unknown requests are being made to access personal and system information.

See original GitHub issue
  • nodemon -v: 2.0.15
  • node -v: 12.13.0
  • Operating system/terminal environment: windows 10/ vs code terminal
  • Using Docker? What image: none
  • Command you ran: nodemon index

Expected behaviour

Should just start the node.js server on the specified port 3000

Actual behaviour

After starting the server, several unknown requests are being made to the localhost:3000 Trying to access user personal and system information like passwords, environmental variables, Trying to access several scripts which definitely seems to be some security issue.

Steps to reproduce

I am attaching the screenshots for the same. All these requests are not made by me.


If applicable, please append the --dump flag on your command and include the output here ensuring to remove any sensitive/personal details or tokens. issue1 issue2 issue3

Issue Analytics

  • State:closed
  • Created 2 years ago
  • Comments:5 (3 by maintainers)

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ayushpratap2494commented, Mar 22, 2022

Sure Thanks ! I will share recording when I am able to reproduce the same issue again ! You may close this as of now.

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remycommented, Mar 22, 2022

When you do, again, make sure you show kicking off nodemon and the requests coming in, then end the nodemon process and kick off with node within the same window - i.e. try to minimise the number of changing variables.

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