Bug 1588882 (CVE-2016-10684)

Summary:	CVE-2016-10684 healthcenter: downloads binary resources over HTTP
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Pedro Sampaio <psampaio>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Version:	unspecified	CC:	abergmann, bkearney, ggainey, meissner, psampaio, tlestach
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Description Pedro Sampaio 2018-06-08 01:57:03 UTC

healthcenter - IBM Monitoring and Diagnostic Tools health Center agent healthcenter downloads 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.

External references:

https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/288

Comment 4 Tomas Hoger 2018-06-11 12:50:53 UTC

This CVE seems to be specific to how the healthcenter NPM package installer downloads binaries from the IBM download site using http rather than https.  It does not seem relevant to the healthcenter component included in IBM JDKs.