What is CVE-2016-10534?

CVE-2016-10534 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Electron-Packager Project, classified under Improper Certificate Validation. CVSS score: 5.9/10. Published 2018-05-31.

How severe is CVE-2016-10534?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.9 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Electron-Packager Project

CVE-2016-10534

electron-packager is a command line tool that packages Electron source code into `.app` and `.exe` packages. along with Electron. The `--strict-ssl` command line option in electron-packager >= 5.2.1 <= 6.0.0 || >=6.0.0 <= 6.0.2 defaults to false if not explicitly set to true. This could allow an attacker to perform a man in the middle attack.

Vulnerability class: Improper Certificate Validation

EPSS: 0.010 (57.7th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.9 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N.

Affected products

Electron-packager_project Electron-packager
Hackerone Electron-packager Node Module — versions >= 5.2.1 <= 6.0.0 || >=6.0.0 <= 6.0.2

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-295 — Improper Certificate Validation

References

support@hackerone.com (Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC, Mitigation, Issue Tracking)
support@hackerone.com (Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC, Mitigation)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2016-10534?: CVE-2016-10534 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Electron-Packager Project, classified under Improper Certificate Validation. CVSS score: 5.9/10. Published 2018-05-31.
How severe is CVE-2016-10534?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.9 out of 10.