Bug 1588882 (CVE-2016-10684) - CVE-2016-10684 healthcenter: downloads binary resources over HTTP
Summary: CVE-2016-10684 healthcenter: downloads binary resources over HTTP
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: CVE-2016-10684
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Blocks: 1588883
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Reported: 2018-06-08 01:57 UTC by Pedro Sampaio
Modified: 2021-02-17 00:09 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2018-06-11 12:50:53 UTC
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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.

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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.
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