GHSA-7vrq-vg6p-32fwHigh

Downloads Resources over HTTP in libxl

Published
February 18, 2019
Last Modified
January 9, 2023

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

📋 Description

Affected versions of libxl 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 libxl.

Recommendation

The module author recommends installing the bindings using a pinned and verified version of SDK instead of the automated download. More information is available in the modules README.

🎯 Affected products1

  • npm/libxl:<= 0.4.5

🔗 References (3)