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CVE-2016-10534

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2016-10534 affects electron-packager, a tool for packaging Electron applications, specifically versions 5.2.1 through 6.0.2. The vulnerability stems from the --strict-ssl option defaulting to false, which could enable a man-in-the-middle attack. Rated as Medium severity (CVSS 5.9), this flaw has a high impact on integrity (I:H) and requires high attack complexity (AC:H) to exploit, but no user interaction is needed (UI:N). There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 5.2.1, <= 6.0.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:electron-packager_project:electron-packager:*:*:*:*:*:node.js:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

5.9MEDIUM

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
2.2
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.95%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
57.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0095 is in the 16th percentile among its peer group of 19,955 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (2)

npmpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: electron-packagerFixed in: 7.0.0
github_advisoryworkaround availablevia nvd_reference
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

npmGHSA-q43m-ffwr-rpcclow

SSL Validation Defaults to False in electron-packager

Feb 18, 2019

References

github.com / electron-userland/electron-packager/issues/333
Issue TrackingMitigationThird Party Advisory
nodesecurity.io / advisories/104
MitigationThird Party Advisory