High

Cleartext Transmission of Sensitive Information, Inclusion of Functionality from Untrusted Control Sphere , and Download of Code Without Integrity Check in Eclipse hawkBit

  • Disclosed: 15.04.2019
  • Updated: 11.10.2026 11:21

Eclipse hawkBit versions prior to 0.3.0M2 resolved Maven build artifacts for the Vaadin based UI over HTTP instead of HTTPS. Any of these dependent artifacts could have been maliciously compromised by a MITM attack. Hence produced build artifacts of hawkBit might be infected.

Affected software

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PlatformPackageVulnerable versionsFixed in
Java / Kotlin (Maven) org.eclipse.hawkbit:hawkbit-autoconfigure < 0.3.0M2 0.3.0M2
Java / Kotlin (Maven) org.eclipse.hawkbit:hawkbit-boot-starter < 0.3.0M2 0.3.0M2
Java / Kotlin (Maven) org.eclipse.hawkbit:hawkbit-boot-starter-ddi-api < 0.3.0M2 0.3.0M2
Java / Kotlin (Maven) org.eclipse.hawkbit:hawkbit-boot-starter-dmf-api < 0.3.0M2 0.3.0M2
Java / Kotlin (Maven) org.eclipse.hawkbit:hawkbit-boot-starter-mgmt-api < 0.3.0M2 0.3.0M2
Java / Kotlin (Maven) org.eclipse.hawkbit:hawkbit-boot-starter-mgmt-ui < 0.3.0M2 0.3.0M2
Java / Kotlin (Maven) org.eclipse.hawkbit:hawkbit-parent < 0.3.0M2 0.3.0M2
Java / Kotlin (Maven) org.eclipse.hawkbit:hawkbit-starters < 0.3.0M2 0.3.0M2
Java / Kotlin (Maven) org.eclipse.hawkbit:hawkbit-ui < 0.3.0M2 0.3.0M2
Java / Kotlin (Maven) org.eclipse.hawkbit:hawkbit-update-server < 0.3.0M2 0.3.0M2

References

CVSS score 8.1/10
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-319, CWE-494, CWE-829
Platform
Java / Kotlin (Maven)
Package
org.eclipse.hawkbit:hawkbit-autoconfigure, org.eclipse.hawkbit:hawkbit-boot-starter, org.eclipse.hawkbit:hawkbit-boot-starter-ddi-api
Disclosed
15.04.2019
Updated
11.10.2026 11:21

Sources and licenses

OSV / GitHub Advisory Database - GHSA-jwqm-c9f2-2cq3 - CC BY 4.0

Vulnerability history: org.eclipse.hawkbit:hawkbit-boot-starter-mgmt-ui

All published vulnerabilities of this package (Java / Kotlin (Maven)), newest first. Shows whether this is a one-off slip or a package that needs watching.

This is the only known vulnerability of this package.

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