CVE-2016-10665: Herbivore Project Herbivore

High severity, CVSS 8.1. EPSS: 2.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

herbivore is a packet sniffing and crafting library. Built on libtins herbivore 0.0.3 and below download 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 resources with an attacker controlled copy if the attacker is on the network or positioned in between the user and the remote server.

Affected products

• Herbivore Project Herbivore: up to and including 0.0.3

Published 2018-06-04. Last modified 2026-06-17.