Security Trust Report: tough-cookie

[email protected]: 65/100 | Grade: B | Tier: STANDARD (confidence: ±3)

Data verified on 2026-04-02 from 8 security databases.

TL;DR

• 1 vulnerability found (1 critical, 0 high)
• Consider switching to cookie (Simpler cookie parsing)
• Pin your version and monitor for changes

Score Breakdown

Maintainer Trust:  ███████████████░░░░░ 77/100
Package Health:    ██████████████████░░ 89/100
Supply Chain:      ███████░░░░░░░░░░░░░ 34/100
Community:         ██████████░░░░░░░░░░ 49/100

Why this score?

• Supply Chain is 34 because: 1 known CVEs, in breach database
• Community is 49 because: no GitHub repo found

Vulnerabilities (1 vulnerability)

| Severity | Count | |----------|-------| | 🔴 Critical | 1 |

• CVE-2023-26136

Key Risk Flags

• 🔴 CRITICAL: RECENT-ISH BREACH: Prototype pollution CVE-2023-26136 (2023)
• 🔴 CRITICAL: 1 CRITICAL vulnerability(ies) from live CVE databases
• 🟠 HIGH: Maintainer(s) removed in v2.5.0: maratto
• 🟠 HIGH: Maintainer(s) removed in v4.1.0: ruoho
• 🟠 HIGH: Maintainer(s) removed in v5.0.0-rc.0: jstash

🛠️ What Should You Do?

Immediate:

• Upgrade to the latest version (npm update tough-cookie)
• Or replace with cookie

Always: Pin version, run pkgtrust scan in CI, monitor at nrupak.com/trust/tough-cookie

🔄 Safer Alternatives

| Package | Why | Trust Report | |---------|-----|-------------| | cookie | Simpler cookie parsing | View score |

Maintainers

• awaterma ✅ 2FA (org)
• ccasey ✅ 2FA (org)

Methodology: 18+ signals across 4 categories (Maintainer 35%, Package 25%, Supply Chain 25%, Community 15%). Full scoring docs →

Check your project: npm i -g @cyberhub/pkgtrust && pkgtrust scan tough-cookie — CLI docs Data Sources: GitHub Advisories · OSV.dev · npm audit · Snyk · Socket.dev · npms.io · Bundlephobia · deps.dev

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This is an automated security report. Not affiliated with the tough-cookie team. Updated 2026-04-02.