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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2016-10530

The airbrake module 0.3.8 and earlier defaults to sending environment variables over HTTP. Environment variables can often times contain secret keys and other sensitive values. A malicious user could be on the same network as a regular user and intercept all the secret keys the user is sending. This goes against common best practice, which is to use HTTPS.

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CVE-2016-10530

core-osv · Original source

Published 31 May 2018, 20:29 UTC

The airbrake module 0.3.8 and earlier defaults to sending environment variables over HTTP. Environment variables can often times contain secret keys and other sensitive values. A malicious user could be on the same network as a regular user and intercept all the secret keys the user is sending. This goes against common best practice, which is to use HTTPS.

osv:CVE-2016-10530
Complete source record
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  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-10530",
  "method": "structured",
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    "summary": "The airbrake module 0.3.8 and earlier defaults to sending environment variables over HTTP. Environment variables can often times contain secret keys and other sensitive values. A malicious user could be on the same network as a regular user and intercept all the secret keys the user is sending. This goes against common best practice, which is to use HTTPS.",
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      "modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:35.483993481Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
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  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 433745,
  "published_at": "2018-05-31T20:29:00.987+00:00"
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