GitHub Advisoryadvisory · npm
GHSA-w364-8vfv-gvf5 Downloads Resources over HTTP in phantomjs-cheniu
HIGH
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- Aliases
- CVE-2016-10661
- Ecosystem
- npm
- Packages
- phantomjs-cheniu
- Severity
- High
- Weaknesses
- CWE-311
- Reviewed
- 2020-06-16
Affected packages
• npm phantomjs-cheniu: <= 2.0.1 (no fix yet)
Description
Affected versions of `phantomjs-cheniu` 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 `phantomjs-cheniu`.
Recommendation
No patch is currently available for this vulnerability.
As this package is just a fork of Medium's `phantomjs-prebuilt` package, the best mitigation is currently to install the `Medium` version of `phantomjs-prebuilt`. This can be done via the following command:
```
npm i phantomjs-prebuilt
```
Related
Alias · CVE (1)
- CVE-2016-10661 phantomjs-cheniu is a Headless WebKit with JS API phantomjs-cheniu downloads binary resources over HTTP, which leaves it vulnerable to MITM… vulnerability
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-311 Missing Encryption of Sensitive Data weakness