Puncia Cleartext Transmission of Sensitive Information via HTTP urls in `API_URLS`

published 2024-07-19 2 y ago modified 2026-09-10 1 mo ago also GHSA-rwcj-7jjp-4w38 , PYSEC-2026-1809 , EUVD-2024-2414

cvss: 6.3; version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 0.3%; EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 19%
public exploits: 0; none known

Puncia is the Official CLI utility for Subdomain Center & Exploit Observer. `API_URLS` is utilizing HTTP instead of HTTPS for communication that can lead to issues like Eavesdropping, Data Tampering, Unauthorized Data Access & MITM Attacks. This issue has been addressed in release version 0.21 by using https rather than http connections. All users are advised to upgrade. There is no known workarounds for this vulnerability.

Patch / fix

fixed in 2 links 1

pypi puncia 0.21
ARPSyndicate puncia 0.21

github.com/ARPSyndicate/puncia@033f3b6 commit

CISA SSVC

Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical impact: total
Assessed: 2 y ago (2024-07-22)

Exploit prediction

0.27% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 19% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
CNA	3.1	6.3	CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
GitHub	3.1	3.8	CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
OSV	3.1	3.8	CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

Affected packages

ecosystem	package	affected	fixed in
pypi	puncia	<0.21	0.21

Affected products

ARPSyndicate puncia

Classification

Weakness

CWE-319 Cleartext Transmission of Sensitive Information
CWE-311 Missing Encryption of Sensitive Data

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.

Summary