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CVE-2016-10621

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2016-10621 affects fibjs, a JavaScript runtime, due to its insecure practice of downloading binary resources over unencrypted HTTP. This vulnerability allows for Man-in-the-Middle (MITM) attacks, enabling an attacker to swap legitimate binaries with malicious ones. With a CVSS score of 8.1 (HIGH), the attack has high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability, with high attack complexity, and could lead to remote code execution. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 0.1.8CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:fibjs_project:fibjs:*:*:*:*:*:node.js:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

8.1HIGH

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
2.2
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.75%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
75.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0175 is in the 33rd percentile among its peer group of 8,914 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.1 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 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Patches (1)

redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Subscription Asset ManagerFixed in: v8

Vendor Advisories (2)

npmGHSA-6p48-xfj3-jw67high

Downloads Resources over HTTP in fibjs

Feb 18, 2019
redhatCVE-2016-10621Moderate

v8: fibjs runtime downloads binary resources over HTTP

Jan 1, 2017

References

nodesecurity.io / advisories/217
Third Party Advisory