selenium-chromedriver Downloads Resources over HTTP

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 fix is available yet. Followings are affected versions:

• <= 0.0.2

References

• GHSA-7p6h-3fmw-539q
• www.npmjs.com
• CVE-2016-10624
• CWE-311
• CAPEC-310
• OWASP 2021-A4
• OWASP 2021-A6

Related Issues

• chromedriver Downloads Resources over HTTP - CVE-2016-10579
• selenium-wrapper downloads Resources over HTTP - CVE-2016-10628
• dalek-browser-ie-canary downloads Resources over HTTP - CVE-2016-10612
• Downloads Resources over HTTP in jser-stat - CVE-2016-10592

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Tags:

npm

selenium-chromedriver