CVE-2019-10753

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.9 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2019-09-05 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-669

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.

Affected products

Diffplug Eclipse-Cdt: before 9.4.4 — fixed in 9.4.4
Diffplug Eclipse-Groovy: before 3.0.1 — fixed in 3.0.1
Diffplug Eclipse-Wtp: before 3.9.6 — fixed in 3.9.6

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Diffplug Eclipse-Cdt 9.4.4; Diffplug Eclipse-Groovy 3.0.1; Diffplug Eclipse-Wtp 3.9.6. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

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