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Insecure Defaults Leads to Potential MITM in ezseed-transmission

Moderate severity GitHub Reviewed Published Sep 1, 2020 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Jan 9, 2023

Package

npm ezseed-transmission (npm)

Affected versions

>= 0.0.10, <= 0.0.14

Patched versions

0.0.15

Description

Affected versions of ezseed-transmission download and run a script over an HTTP connection.

An attacker in a privileged network position could launch a Man-in-the-Middle attack and intercept the script, replacing it with malicious code, completely compromising the system running ezseed-transmission.

Recommendation

Update to version 0.0.15 or later.

References

Reviewed Aug 31, 2020
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Sep 1, 2020
Last updated Jan 9, 2023

Severity

Moderate
4.2
/ 10

CVSS base metrics

Attack vector
Adjacent
Attack complexity
High
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
Low
Availability
None
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2016-1000224

GHSA ID

GHSA-p788-rj37-357w

Source code

No known source code
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