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chromedriver Command Injection vulnerability

Moderate severity GitHub Reviewed Published Nov 9, 2023 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Nov 17, 2023

Package

npm chromedriver (npm)

Affected versions

< 119.0.1

Patched versions

119.0.1

Description

Versions of the package chromedriver before 119.0.1 are vulnerable to Command Injection when setting the chromedriver.path to an arbitrary system binary. This could lead to unauthorized access and potentially malicious actions on the host system.

Note:

An attacker must have access to the system running the vulnerable chromedriver library to exploit it. The success of exploitation also depends on the permissions and privileges of the process running chromedriver.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Nov 9, 2023
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Nov 9, 2023
Reviewed Nov 9, 2023
Last updated Nov 17, 2023

Severity

Moderate
5.6
/ 10

CVSS base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
High
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
Low
Availability
Low
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2023-26156

GHSA ID

GHSA-hm92-vgmw-qfmx

Source code

https://github.com/giggio/node-chromedriver
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