chromedriver Downloads Resources over HTTP

Also known as GHSA-jh5w-6964-x5cf

Published 8 y ago 2018-06-01 · modified 4 mo ago 2026-06-17 · JSON

CVSS

8.1

v3.0 · NVD

CISA KEV

not known exploited

EPSS

1.1%

percentile 66%

Public exploits

none known

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.

Exploit prediction (EPSS)

1.10% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 66% of all scored CVEs.

CVSS scores

Assigned by	Version	Score	Vector
NVD	3.0	8.1	`CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H`
NVD	2.0	6.8	`AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P`
GitHub	3.0	8.1	`CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H`

Affected packages

Ecosystem	Package	Affected	Fixed in
npm	`chromedriver`	<2.25.2	2.25.2

Affected products

HackerOne chromedriver node module

Classification

Weakness

CWE-311 Missing Encryption of Sensitive Data
CWE-310 Cryptographic Issues

References

nodesecurity.io /advisories/160 · x_refsource_MISC, x_transferred
nvd.nist.gov /vuln/detail/CVE-2016-10579 · advisory
github.com /giggio/node-chromedriver/issues/78#issuecomment-266314859 · web
github.com /giggio/node-chromedriver/commit/71981099216b7c15ec01e50baaacb15fe1b85e56 · web
github.com /giggio/node-chromedriver · package

Sources

CVE List: CVE-2016-10579
GitHub Advisory: GHSA-jh5w-6964-x5cf
NVD: CVE-2016-10579

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Summary