Downloads Resources over HTTP in unicode

published 2018-05-29 8 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo 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

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

fixed in 2

npm unicode 9.0.0
unicode_project unicode 9.0.0

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 2025-11-21 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, 2026-11-08).

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

nodesecurity.io /advisories/161
third-party-advisory
nvd.nist.gov /vuln/detail/CVE-2016-10578
advisory
github.com /advisories/GHSA-qjf4-7642-c57p
advisory
npmjs.com /advisories/161
web

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