GHSA-h8mc-42c3-r72pHigh

hubl-server downloads resources over HTTP

Published
July 24, 2018
Last Modified
September 6, 2023

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

📋 Description

Affected versions of hubl-server insecurely download dependencies over an unencrypted HTTP connection.

In scenarios where an attacker has a privileged network position, it is possible to intercept the responses and replace the dependencies with malicious ones, resulting in code execution on the system running hubl-server.

Recommendation

No patch is currently available for this vulnerability, and it has not seen any updates since 2015.

The best mitigation is currently to avoid using this package, using a different package if available.

Alternatively, the risk of exploitation can be reduced by ensuring that this package is not installed while connected to a public network. If the package is installed on a private network, the only people who can exploit this vulnerability are those who have compromised yo

🎯 Affected products1

  • npm/hubl-server:<= 1.1.5

🔗 References (3)