CVE-2019-10753 Incorrect Resource Transfer Between Spheres in eclipse-wtp

What is CVE-2019-10753?

CVE-2019-10753 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Spotless, published on 5 Sep 2019. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

In all versions prior to version 3.9.6 for eclipse-wtp, all versions prior to version 9.4.4 for eclipse-cdt, and all versions prior to version 3.0.1 for eclipse-groovy, Spotless was resolving dependencies over an insecure channel (http). If the build occurred over an insecure connection, a malicious user could have perform a Man-in-the-Middle attack during the build and alter the build artifacts that were produced. In case that any of these artifacts were compromised, any developers using these could be altered. **Note:** In order to validate that this artifact was not compromised, the maintainer would need to confirm that none of the artifacts published to the registry were not altered with. Until this happens, we can not guarantee that this artifact was not compromised even though the probability that this happened is low.

Weakness: CWE-669

Which versions are affected by CVE-2019-10753?

6 open source packages ship an affected version, including com.diffplug.spotless:spotless-eclipse-cdt, com.diffplug.spotless:spotless-eclipse-groovy and com.diffplug.spotless:spotless-eclipse-wtp. It affects 3 products.

Products include Diffplug Eclipse-Cdt, Diffplug Eclipse-Groovy, Diffplug Eclipse-Wtp.

How do I fix CVE-2019-10753?

Upgrade com.diffplug.spotless:spotless-eclipse-cdt to 9.4.4 or later.

Is CVE-2019-10753 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2019-10753 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-gvxv-5fp2-358q, SNYK-JAVA-COMDIFFPLUGSPOTLESS-460377, UBUNTU-CVE-2019-10753.