GitHub Advisoryadvisory · npm

GHSA-7p6h-3fmw-539q selenium-chromedriver Downloads Resources over HTTP

HIGH Published 2019-02-18 Modified 2023-09-11 Official page ↗
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

References