{"id":"CVE-2016-10684","aliases":["EUVD-2019-0306","GHSA-j336-34q7-cgj3"],"status":"published","title":"Downloads Resources over HTTP in healthcenter","description":"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.","severity":{"version":"3.0","score":8.1,"vector":"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","level":"high","assessor":"primary","from":"nvd"},"epss":{"day":"2026-11-08","score":0.01725,"percentile":0.77687,"model":"v2026.06.15"},"facts":{"in_kev":false,"known_exploited":false,"public_exploit":false,"fix_available":false},"cwes":["CWE-310","CWE-311"],"published":"2018-06-04T16:00:00Z","modified":"2026-06-17T00:40:09Z","affected":[{"source":"ghsa","ecosystem":"npm","package":"healthcenter","ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"last_affected":"3.0.3"}]}]},{"source":"osv","ecosystem":"npm","package":"healthcenter","ranges":[{"type":"SEMVER","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"last_affected":"3.0.3"}]}]}],"products":[{"vendor":"hackerone","product":"healthcenter node module"},{"vendor":"healthcenter_project","product":"healthcenter"}],"references":[{"url":"https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/288","tags":["x_refsource_MISC","x_transferred","Third Party Advisory"]},{"url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-10684","tags":["advisory"]},{"url":"https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-j336-34q7-cgj3","tags":["advisory"]},{"url":"https://www.npmjs.com/advisories/288","tags":["web"]}],"sources":{"cve":[{"id":"CVE-2016-10684","description":"healthcenter - IBM Monitoring and Diagnostic Tools health Center agent healthcenter downloads binary resources over HTTP, which leaves it vulnerable to MITM attacks. 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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.","status":"published","published":"2018-06-04T16:00:00Z","modified":"2024-09-17T00:16:26Z","updated_at":"2026-11-03T00:29:00.656249Z"}],"ghsa":[{"id":"GHSA-j336-34q7-cgj3","title":"Downloads Resources over HTTP in healthcenter","description":"Affected versions of `healthcenter` insecurely download an executable over an unencrypted HTTP connection. \n\nIn scenarios where an attacker has a privileged network position, it is possible to intercept the response and replace the executable with a malicious one, resulting in code execution on the system running `healthcenter`.\n\n\n## Recommendation\n\nThis package has been deprecated, and moved to a new package on npm: [`appmetrics`](https://npmjs.com/package/appmetrics).\n\nIn order to mitigate this vulnerability, please install the `appmetrics` package in place of `healthcenter` via the following commands:\n```\nnpm uninstall healthcenter -s\nnpm install appmetrics -s\n```","status":"published","published":"2019-02-18T23:42:06Z","modified":"2023-01-09T05:02:55Z","cwes":["CWE-311"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T14:36:04.396827Z"}],"nvd":[{"id":"CVE-2016-10684","description":"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.","status":"published","published":"2018-06-04T16:29:02.173Z","modified":"2026-06-17T00:40:09.623Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.0","score":8.1,"vector":"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","level":"high","assessor":"primary"},{"version":"2.0","score":9.3,"vector":"AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C","level":"high","assessor":"primary"}],"cwes":["CWE-311","CWE-310"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T14:03:39.621168Z"}],"osv":[{"id":"GHSA-j336-34q7-cgj3","title":"Downloads Resources over HTTP in healthcenter","description":"Affected versions of `healthcenter` insecurely download an executable over an unencrypted HTTP connection. \n\nIn scenarios where an attacker has a privileged network position, it is possible to intercept the response and replace the executable with a malicious one, resulting in code execution on the system running `healthcenter`.\n\n\n## Recommendation\n\nThis package has been deprecated, and moved to a new package on npm: [`appmetrics`](https://npmjs.com/package/appmetrics).\n\nIn order to mitigate this vulnerability, please install the `appmetrics` package in place of `healthcenter` via the following commands:\n```\nnpm uninstall healthcenter -s\nnpm install appmetrics -s\n```","status":"published","published":"2019-02-18T23:42:06Z","modified":"2023-11-08T03:58:20.215293Z","cwes":["CWE-311"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T15:46:49.977351Z"}]}}