Downloads Resources over HTTP in rs-brightcove

Description

Affected versions of rs-brightcove 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 rs-brightcove.

Recommendation

No fix is available yet. Followings are affected versions:

• <= 0.0.2

References

• GHSA-3w76-x94r-pw44
• www.npmjs.com
• CVE-2016-10676
• CWE-311
• CAPEC-310
• OWASP 2021-A4
• OWASP 2021-A6

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Tags:

npm

rs-brightcove