selenium-wrapper downloads Resources over HTTP

Description

Affected versions of selenium-wrapper 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-wrapper.

Recommendation

No fix is available yet. Followings are affected versions:

• <= 0.0.9

References

• GHSA-pr34-8jfr-xhv8
• www.npmjs.com
• CVE-2016-10628
• CWE-311
• CAPEC-310
• OWASP 2021-A4
• OWASP 2021-A6

Related Issues

• selenium-chromedriver Downloads Resources over HTTP - CVE-2016-10624
• node-browser downloads Resources over HTTP - CVE-2016-10618
• Downloads Resources over HTTP in rs-brightcove - CVE-2016-10676
• Downloads Resources over HTTP in product-monitor - CVE-2016-10567

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Tags:

npm

selenium-wrapper