{"id":"GHSA-7p6h-3fmw-539q","summary":"selenium-chromedriver Downloads Resources over HTTP","details":"Affected versions of `selenium-chromedriver` insecurely download an executable over an unencrypted HTTP connection. \n\nIn 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`.\n\n\n## Recommendation\n\nNo patch is currently available for this vulnerability, and the author has marked the package as deprecated.\n\nThe best mitigation is currently to avoid using this package, using a different package if available. \n\nAlternatively, 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","aliases":["CVE-2016-10624"],"modified":"2023-11-08T03:58:16.542637Z","published":"2019-02-18T23:47:27Z","database_specific":{"cwe_ids":["CWE-311"],"severity":"HIGH","github_reviewed":true,"github_reviewed_at":"2020-06-16T21:23:02Z","nvd_published_at":null},"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-10624"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-7p6h-3fmw-539q"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://www.npmjs.com/advisories/222"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"selenium-chromedriver","ecosystem":"npm","purl":"pkg:npm/selenium-chromedriver"},"ranges":[{"type":"SEMVER","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"last_affected":"0.0.2"}]}],"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2019/02/GHSA-7p6h-3fmw-539q/GHSA-7p6h-3fmw-539q.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.9.0","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"}]}