CVE-2021-21373 (GCVE-0-2021-21373)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-03-26 21:25 – Updated: 2024-08-03 18:09
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
Nimble falls back to insecure http url when fetching packages
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.
Severity
7.5 (High)
CWE
- CWE-348 - Use of Less Trusted Source
Assigner
References
3 references
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://consensys.net/diligence/vulnerabilities/n… | x_refsource_MISC |
| https://github.com/nim-lang/nimble/blob/master/ch… | x_refsource_MISC |
| https://github.com/nim-lang/security/security/adv… | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
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