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Security Advisories: MDE2OlNlY3VyaXR5QWR2aXNvcnlHSFNBLTdwNmgtM2Ztdy01Mzlx

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

Permalink: https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-7p6h-3fmw-539q
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Source: GitHub Advisory Database
Origin: Unspecified
Severity: High
Classification: General
Published: about 5 years ago
Updated: 8 months ago

CVSS Score: 8.1
CVSS vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Identifiers: GHSA-7p6h-3fmw-539q, CVE-2016-10624
References:

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-10624
• https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-7p6h-3fmw-539q
• https://www.npmjs.com/advisories/222

Blast Radius: 10.7

Affected Packages