CVEvulnerability

CVE-2016-10665

8.1 HIGH Published 2018-06-04 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2018-06-04
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
8.1 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
9.3 HIGH — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-310, CWE-311

Description

herbivore is a packet sniffing and crafting library. Built on libtins herbivore 0.0.3 and below download 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 resources with an attacker controlled copy if the attacker is on the network or positioned in between the user and the remote server.

Affected configurations

• herbivore project herbivore (<= 0.0.3)

Related

Weakness · not in database (1)

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-311 Missing Encryption of Sensitive Data weakness

References