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Resources Downloaded over Insecure Protocol Affecting libxl package, versions <0.2.21 >=0.3.1 <0.3.4 >=0.4.0 <0.4.4

Severity

 Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.18% (56th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID npm:libxl:20161219
  • published 20 Dec 2016
  • disclosed 19 Dec 2016
  • credit Adam Baldwin
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Introduced: 19 Dec 2016

CVE-2016-10585 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-319 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

There is no fix version for libxl. Versions before 0.2.20 are not affected.

Overview

libxl contains node bindings for the libxl library for reading and writing excel (XLS and XLSX) spreadsheets. Affected versions of the package are vulnerable to Man in the Middle (MitM) attacks due to downloading resources over an insecure protocol.

CVSS Scores

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Snyk

Recommended
7.1 high
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    High
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    Low
  • User Interaction (UI)
    Required
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    High
  • Integrity (I)
    High
  • Availability (A)
    High