CVE-2016-10585

Summary

CVE	CVE-2016-10585
State	PUBLIC
Assigner	[email protected]
Source Priority	CVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published	2018-06-01 18:29:00 UTC
Updated	2019-10-09 23:16:00 UTC
Description	libxl provides Node bindings for the libxl library for reading and writing excel (XLS and XLSX) spreadsheets. libxl downloads zipped 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 zip file with an attacker controlled zip file if the attacker is on the network or positioned in between the user and the remote server.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-310

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

Type	Vendor	Product	Version	Update	Edition	Language
Application	Libxl Project	Libxl	All	All	All	All

References

Reference	Source	Link	Tags
Overview	MISC	nodesecurity.io	Third Party Advisory
CVE Program record	CVE.ORG	www.cve.org	canonical
NVD vulnerability detail	NVD	nvd.nist.gov	canonical, analysis

No vendor comments have been submitted for this CVE.

Legacy QID Mappings

980924 Nodejs (npm) Security Update for libxl (GHSA-7vrq-vg6p-32fw)