CVE-2024-31206
HIGHCVE-2024-31206 is a high-severity (CVSS 8.2) CWE-300 vulnerability in dectalk-tts. O3 Security confirms whether CVE-2024-31206 is actually reachable in your code before you act, and blocks exploitation at runtime until you patch.
Use of Unencrypted HTTP Request in dectalk-tts
Blast Radius
Weekly download volume for affected packages — a proxy for how broadly this vulnerability is deployed.
dectalk-ttsnpmDescription
dectalk-tts is a Node package to interact with the aeiou Dectalk web API. In [email protected], network requests to the third-party API are sent over HTTP, which is unencrypted. Unencrypted traffic can be easily intercepted and modified by attackers. Anyone who uses the package could be the victim of a man-in-the-middle (MITM) attack. The network request was upgraded to HTTPS in version 1.0.1. There are no workarounds, but some precautions include not sending any sensitive information and carefully verifying the API response before saving it.
Affected Packages
| Ecosystem | Package | Vulnerable range | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|
| 📦npm | dectalk-tts | ≥ 1.0.0&&< 1.0.1 | 1.0.1 |
Detection & mitigation playbook
Open-source dependencyDetect
Scan your dependency tree (package-lock.json, pnpm-lock.yaml, requirements.txt, go.sum, etc.) for dectalk-tts. O3's reachability analysis confirms whether the vulnerable code path is actually invoked in your application, so you act on real exposure instead of every transitive match.
Fix
Update dectalk-tts to 1.0.1 or later, then make sure no transitive (indirect) dependency still pins the vulnerable range — O3 confirms CVE-2024-31206 is resolved across your whole dependency graph.
Workarounds
If you can't upgrade right away: gate or disable the affected feature, validate untrusted input at the boundary, and avoid passing attacker-controlled data into the vulnerable path. O3's runtime protection blocks exploitation in production as an interim safeguard until the upgrade lands.
How O3 protects you
O3 pinpoints whether CVE-2024-31206 is reachable in your code and exactly where to fix it, then blocks exploitation in production at runtime until the patched version is deployed.
Tailored to CVE-2024-31206. Runtime protection reduces exposure until a permanent patch is applied and verified — it complements patching, it doesn't replace it.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is CVE-2024-31206 in your dependencies?
O3 detects CVE-2024-31206 across npm dependencies and uses function-level reachability to confirm whether the vulnerable code path is actually reachable — not just present. No false positives.