PT-2018-4735 · Appium · Appium-Chromedriver

Published 2018-05-31 · Updated 2019-10-09 · CVE-2016-10557

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

8.1

High

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions appium-chromedriver versions prior to 2.9.4

Description The issue allows for a man-in-the-middle (MITM) attack due to the insecure download of binary resources over HTTP. This could potentially lead to remote code execution (RCE) if an attacker swaps the requested binary with a malicious one, provided they have a privileged network position. This position could be between the user and the remote server or on the same network.

Recommendations Update to version 2.9.4 or later.

Fix

Missing Encryption of Sensitive Data

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-311

CWE-310

Related Identifiers

CVE-2016-10557

GHSA-HC94-2WFR-4PWF

Affected Products

Appium-Chromedriver

References · 6

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-10557 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-10557 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-hc94-2wfr-4pwf · Vendor Advisory
• https://npmjs.com/advisories/162 · Note
• https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/162 · Note
• https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-hc94-2wfr-4pwf · Note