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high 8.1

CVE-2016-10578 json

Downloads Resources over HTTP in unicode

published 8y ago modified 4mo ago also GHSA-qjf4-7642-c57p , EUVD-2019-0330

cvss
8.1
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.6%
EPSS 0.6% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 46%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

unicode loads unicode data downloaded from unicode.org into nodejs. Unicode before 9.0.0 downloads binary resources over HTTP, which leaves it vulnerable to MITM attacks.

Patch / fix

  • npm unicode 9.0.0
  • unicode_project unicode 9.0.0

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Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2016-10578 updated cvss 4.2

nodejs-unicode: Downloads resources over HTTP

  • Red Hat All currently supported Red Hat products
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

0.56% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 46% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 8.1 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 6.8 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
npm unicode
<9.0.0
9.0.0

Affected products

  • HackerOne unicode node module

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-311 Missing Encryption of Sensitive Data
  • CWE-310 Cryptographic Issues

References

Sources

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