appium-chromedriver downloads Resources over HTTP

Description

Affected versions of appium-chromedriver insecurely download resources over HTTP.

In scenarios where an attacker has a privileged network position, they can modify or read items send over HTTP at will. In this case, that includes the chromedriver binary, which may result in remote code execution if overwritten with a malicious binary.

Recommendation

Update the appium-chromedriver package to the latest compatible version. Followings are version details:

• Affected version(s): < 2.9.4
• Patched version(s): 2.9.4

References

• GHSA-hc94-2wfr-4pwf
• www.npmjs.com
• CVE-2016-10557
• CWE-311
• CAPEC-310
• OWASP 2021-A4
• OWASP 2021-A6

Related Issues

• chromedriver Downloads Resources over HTTP - CVE-2016-10579
• Downloads Resources over HTTP in dalek-browser-chrome-canary - CVE-2016-10584
• Downloads Resources over HTTP in baryton-saxophone - CVE-2016-10573
• Downloads Resources over HTTP in product-monitor - CVE-2016-10567

Tags:

npm

appium-chromedriver