A curated list of awesome Node.js Security related resources.

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Table of Contents

• Tools
  • Web Framework Hardening
  • Static Code Analysis
  • Input/Output Validation
  • CSRF
  • Vulnerabilities and Security Advisories
  • Security Hardening
• Educational
  • Hacking Playground
  • Articles
  • Research Papers
  • Books
• Companies

Tools

Web Framework Hardening

• Helmet - Helmet helps you secure your Express apps by setting various HTTP headers.

Static Code Analysis

• eslint-plugin-security - ESLint rules for Node Security. This project will help identify potential security hotspots, but finds a lot of false positives which need triage by a human.
• safe-regex - detect potentially catastrophic exponential-time regular expressions by limiting the star height to 1.
• vuln-regex-detector - This module lets you check a regex for vulnerability. In JavaScript, regular expressions (regexes) can be "vulnerable": susceptible to catastrophic backtracking. If your application is used on the client side, this can be a performance issue. On the server side, this can expose you to Regular Expression Denial of Service (REDOS).
• git-secrets - Prevents you from committing secrets and credentials into git repositories.

Input/Output Validation

• node-esapi - node-esapi is a minimal port of the ESAPI4JS (Enterprise Security API for JavaScript) encoder.
• escape-html - Escape string for use in HTML.
• js-string-escape - Escape any string to be a valid JavaScript string literal between double quotes or single quotes.
• https://github.com/chriso/validator.js - A library of string validators and sanitizers.
• xss-filters - Just sufficient output filtering to prevent XSS!

CSRF

• csurf - Node.js CSRF protection middleware.

Vulnerabilities and Security Advisories

• npq - Safely install packages with npm or yarn by auditing them as part of your install process.
• snyk - Snyk helps you find, fix and monitor known vulnerabilities in Node.js npm, Ruby and Java dependencies, both on an ad hoc basis and as part of your CI (Build) system.
• node-release-lines - Introspection API for Node.js release metadata. Provides information about release lines, their relative status along with details of each release.

Security Hardening

• express-limiter - Rate limiting middleware for Express applications built on redis.
• limits - Simple express/connect middleware to set limit to upload size, set request timeout etc.

Educational

Hacking Playground

• NodeGoat - The OWASP NodeGoat project provides an environment to learn how OWASP Top 10 security risks apply to web applications developed using Node.js and how to effectively address them.
• OWASP Juice Shop is an intentionally insecure webapp for security trainings written entirely in Javascript which encompasses the entire OWASP Top Ten and other severe security flaws. -

Books

• Secure Your Node.js Web Application: Keep Attackers Out and Users Happy by Karl Duuna, 2016
• Essential Node.js Security by Liran Tal, 2017 - Hands-on and abundant with source code for a practical guide to Securing Node.js web applications.
• Securing Node JS Apps by Ben Edmunds, 2016 - Learn the security basics that a senior developer usually acquires over years of experience, all condensed down into one quick and easy handbook.
• Web Developer Security Toolbox - Bundled Node.js and Web Security Books.

Companies

• Snyk - A developer-first solution that automates finding & fixing vulnerabilities in your dependencies.
• Sqreen - Automated security for your web apps - real time application security protection.
• Intrinsic - Intrinsic secures your sensitive data from bugs and malicious code, allowing you to run all code safely.
• NodeSource - Mission-critical Node.js applications. Provides N|Solid and Node Certified Modules.

Contributing

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