GHSA-hv96-xxx2-5v7wHighCVSS 8.1

Downloads Resources over HTTP in nw

Published
February 18, 2019
Last Modified
January 9, 2023

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

📋 Description

Affected versions of nw 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 nw.

Recommendation

Update to version 0.23.6-1 or later.

🎯 Affected products1

  • npm/nw:<= 0.23.6-sdk

🔗 References (4)