CVE-2016-10624 – selenium-chromedriver

Package

Manager: npm
Name: selenium-chromedriver
Vulnerable Version: >=0 <=0.0.2

Severity

Level: High

CVSS v3.1: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

EPSS: 0.00546 pctl0.66849

Details

selenium-chromedriver Downloads Resources over HTTP 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

Metadata

Created: 2019-02-18T23:47:27Z
Modified: 2023-09-11T18:11:23Z
Source: https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2019/02/GHSA-7p6h-3fmw-539q/GHSA-7p6h-3fmw-539q.json
CWE IDs: ["CWE-311"]
Alternative ID: GHSA-7p6h-3fmw-539q
Finding: F020
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