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GHSA-gc6c-5v9w-xmhw
nodewebkitAffected versions of nodewebkit 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 nodewebkit.
Recommendation
No patch is currently available, and the package author has deprecated this package.
The best path forward in mitigating this vulnerability is to use the official installer instead of this package, as per the package author's instructions.
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Measures severity based on intrinsic characteristics of the vulnerability, independent of environment.
No exploitation activity has been observed at this time. Continue routine monitoring.
Probability that this vulnerability will be exploited in the wild within the next 30 days.
We did not find any exploit available. Neither in GitHub repositories nor in the Exploit-Database.
- CVE-2016-10580Alias
- EUVD-2019-0293Alias
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