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Insecure Defaults Affecting faye Open this link in a new tab package, versions <0.8.9 >=0.5.0

0.0
medium

  • Exploit Maturity

    Proof of concept

  • Attack Complexity

    Low

  • User Interaction

    Required

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  • snyk-id

    npm:faye:20121107

  • published

    28 Mar 2017

  • disclosed

    6 Sep 2011

  • credit

    Thai Duong, Juliano Rizzo

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Introduced: 6 Sep 2011

CVE-2011-3389 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-300 Open this link in a new tab

Overview

faye is a simple pub/sub messaging for the web. Affected versions of the package are vulnerable to Man-In-The-Middle attacks due to insecure defaults. By default, faye used an insecure cipher, allowing attackers to gain access to SSL encrypted packets. This attack is also known as the BEAST attack.

You can read more about insecure defaults on our blog

Remediation

Upgrade faye to version 0.8.9 or higher.