CVE-2021-21373
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2021-03-26 21:25
Modified
2024-08-03 18:09
Severity ?
7.5 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:H/A:L
Summary
Nimble is a package manager for the Nim programming language. In Nim release versions before versions 1.2.10 and 1.4.4, "nimble refresh" fetches a list of Nimble packages over HTTPS by default. In case of error it falls back to a non-TLS URL http://irclogs.nim-lang.org/packages.json. An attacker able to perform MitM can deliver a modified package list containing malicious software packages. If the packages are installed and used the attack escalates to untrusted code execution.
References
security-advisories@github.comhttps://consensys.net/diligence/vulnerabilities/nim-insecure-ssl-tls-defaults-remote-code-execution/Exploit, Third Party Advisory
security-advisories@github.comhttps://github.com/nim-lang/nimble/blob/master/changelog.markdown#0130Release Notes, Third Party Advisory
security-advisories@github.comhttps://github.com/nim-lang/security/security/advisories/GHSA-8w52-r35x-rgp8Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://consensys.net/diligence/vulnerabilities/nim-insecure-ssl-tls-defaults-remote-code-execution/Exploit, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/nim-lang/nimble/blob/master/changelog.markdown#0130Release Notes, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/nim-lang/security/security/advisories/GHSA-8w52-r35x-rgp8Third Party Advisory
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