Downloads Resources over HTTP in limbus-buildgen

Description

Affected versions of limbus-buildgen insecurely download an executable over an unencrypted HTTP connection.

In scenarios where an attacker has a privileged network position, it is possible to intercept the response and replace the executable with a malicious one, resulting in code execution on the system running limbus-buildgen.

Recommendation

Update the limbus-buildgen package to the latest compatible version. Followings are version details:

• Affected version(s): < 0.1.1
• Patched version(s): 0.1.1

References

• GHSA-rj38-87f3-93p6
• www.npmjs.com
• CVE-2016-10674
• CWE-311
• CAPEC-310
• OWASP 2021-A4
• OWASP 2021-A6

Related Issues

• jdf-sass downloads Resources over HTTP - CVE-2016-10595
• dalek-browser-ie downloads Resources over HTTP - CVE-2016-10605
• dalek-browser-ie-canary downloads Resources over HTTP - CVE-2016-10612
• slimerjs-edge downloads Resources over HTTP - CVE-2016-10644

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Tags:

npm

limbus-buildgen