Description
During the installation process, the go-ipfs-deps module before 0.4.4 insecurely downloads resources over HTTP. This allows for a MITM attack to compromise the integrity of the resources used by this module and could allow for further compromise.
Remediation
References
https://github.com/diasdavid/go-ipfs-dep/pull/12
https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/156
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