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SCA: security update for selenium-download (GHSA-2mvm-66q7-m256)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 422036

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - selenium-download downloads the latest versions of the selenium standalone server and the chromedriver.
 selenium-download before 2.0.7 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. (CVE-2016-10559)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-2mvm-66q7-m256

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 422036

Version: Revision 1.3

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 3/28/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 57.12

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.3

Temporal Score: 6.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2016-10559

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.1

Temporal Score: 7.1

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/18/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/30/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-10559

cwe: CWE-311