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High CVE-2016-10615 EUVD-2019-0264GHSA-8p52-7cxv-6c95

Downloads Resources over HTTP in curses

Published Jun 1, 2018 · Updated Sep 16, 2024 · Assigned by hackerone

Description

curses is bindings for the native curses library, a full featured console IO library. curses downloads binary resources over HTTP, which leaves it vulnerable to MITM attacks. It may be possible to cause remote code execution (RCE) by swapping out the requested binary with an attacker controlled binary if the attacker is on the network or positioned in between the user and the remote server.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
HackerOne curses node module All versions —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
npm curses <= 0.0.10 — GHSA-8p52-7cxv-6c95

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