High
Security advisory
scala-bin is a binary wrapper for Scala. scala-bin 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 binary with an attacker controlled binary if the attacker is on the network or positioned in between the user and the remote server.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2016-10627
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 04:18 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
scala-bin is a binary wrapper for Scala. scala-bin 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 binary with an attacker controlled binary if the attacker is on the network or positioned in between the user and the remote server.
osv:CVE-2016-10627
Complete source record
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"modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:17.022690069Z",
"provider": "osv",
"references": [
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"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 429474,
"published_at": "2018-05-29T20:29:01.61+00:00"
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