GitHub Advisoryadvisory · npm
GHSA-7p6h-3fmw-539q selenium-chromedriver Downloads Resources over HTTP
HIGH
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- Aliases
- CVE-2016-10624
- Ecosystem
- npm
- Packages
- selenium-chromedriver
- Severity
- High
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-311
- Reviewed
- 2020-06-16
Affected packages
• npm selenium-chromedriver: <= 0.0.2 (no fix yet)
Description
Affected versions of `selenium-chromedriver` insecurely download an executable over an unencrypted HTTP connection.
In scenarios where an attacker has a privileged network position, it is possible to intercept the response and replace the executable with a malicious one, resulting in code execution on the system running `selenium-chromedriver`.
Recommendation
No patch is currently available for this vulnerability, and the author has marked the package as deprecated.
The best mitigation is currently to avoid using this package, using a different package if available.
Alternatively, the risk of exploitation can be reduced by ensuring that this package is not installed while connected to a public network. If the package is installed on a private network, the only people who can exploit this vulnerability are those who have compromised yo
Related
Alias · CVE (1)
- CVE-2016-10624 selenium-chromedriver is a simple utility for downloading the Selenium Webdriver for Google Chrome selenium-chromedriver downloads binary… vulnerability
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-311 Missing Encryption of Sensitive Data weakness