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CVE-2016-10568 (GCVE-0-2016-10568)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2018-05-29 20:00 – Updated: 2024-09-16 19:35
VLAI
Summary
geoip-lite-country is a stripped down version of geoip-lite, supporting only country lookup. geoip-lite-country before 1.1.4 downloads data resources over HTTP, which leaves it vulnerable to MITM attacks.
Severity
8.1 (High)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-311 - Missing Encryption of Sensitive Data (CWE-311)
Assigner
References
URL Tags
https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/183 x_refsource_MISC
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
HackerOne geoip-lite-country node module Affected: <1.1.4
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Date Public
2018-04-26 00:00
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