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SCA: security update for chromedriver (GHSA-jh5w-6964-x5cf)

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 422066

Description

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

 - Chromedriver is an NPM wrapper for selenium ChromeDriver. Chromedriver before 2.26.1 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-2016-10579)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-jh5w-6964-x5cf

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 422066

Version: Revision 1.4

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: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2016-10579

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-2016-10579

cwe: CWE-311