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GHSA-JH5W-6964-X5CF

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2019-02-18 23:58 – Updated: 2025-07-11 14:30

Summary

chromedriver Downloads Resources over HTTP

Details

Affected versions of chromedriver insecurely download resources over HTTP.

In scenarios where an attacker has a privileged network position, they can modify or read such resources at will. This may result in arbitrary code execution if an attacker intercepts and modifies the downloaded binary file, replacing it with a malicious one.

Recommendation

Update to version 2.26.1 or later.

Severity ?

8.1 (High)


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

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CVE-2016-10579 (GCVE-0-2016-10579)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2018-06-01 18:00 – Updated: 2024-09-16 17:58

Summary

Chromedriver is an NPM wrapper for selenium ChromeDriver. Chromedriver before 2.26.1 downloads binary resources over HTTP, which leaves it vulnerable to MITM attacks. It may be possible to cause remote code execution (RCE) by swapping out the requested binary with an attacker controlled binary if the attacker is on the network or positioned in between the user and the remote server.

Severity ?

No CVSS data available.

CWE

CWE-311 - Missing Encryption of Sensitive Data (CWE-311)

Assigner

hackerone

References

URL

Tags

https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/160

x_refsource_MISC

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	HackerOne	chromedriver node module	Affected: <2.26.1

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Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.

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