Bug 1951711 (CVE-2021-21373)

Summary:	CVE-2021-21373 nim: "nimble refresh" falls back to a non-TLS URL in case of errror
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Pedro Sampaio <psampaio>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Description Pedro Sampaio 2021-04-20 19:20:57 UTC

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.

https://consensys.net/diligence/vulnerabilities/nim-insecure-ssl-tls-defaults-remote-code-execution/
https://github.com/nim-lang/nimble/blob/master/changelog.markdown#0130
https://github.com/nim-lang/security/security/advisories/GHSA-8w52-r35x-rgp8

Comment 1 Pedro Sampaio 2021-04-20 19:21:21 UTC

Created nim tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1951712]

Comment 2 Product Security DevOps Team 2021-04-20 22:46:40 UTC

This CVE Bugzilla entry is for community support informational purposes only as it does not affect a package in a commercially supported Red Hat product. Refer to the dependent bugs for status of those individual community products.