Downloads Resources over HTTP

Overview

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 patch is currently available for this vulnerability, and the author has marked the package as deprecated.

The best mitigation is currently to avoid using this package, using a different package if available.

Alternatively, 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

References

GitHub Advisory