Vulnerability: Remote Code Execution (RCE) via MITM Attack in selenium-chromedriver

CVE-2016-10624 · HIGH Severity

AV:N/AC:M/AU:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

selenium-chromedriver is a simple utility for downloading the Selenium Webdriver for Google Chrome selenium-chromedriver 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.

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