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Downloads Resources over HTTP in phantomjs-cheniu

High severity GitHub Reviewed Published Feb 18, 2019 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Jan 9, 2023

Package

npm phantomjs-cheniu (npm)

Affected versions

<= 2.0.1

Patched versions

None

Description

Affected versions of phantomjs-cheniu insecurely download an executable over an unencrypted HTTP connection.

In scenarios where an attacker has a privileged network position, it is possible to intercept the response and replace the executable with a malicious one, resulting in code execution on the system running phantomjs-cheniu.

Recommendation

No patch is currently available for this vulnerability.

As this package is just a fork of Medium's phantomjs-prebuilt package, the best mitigation is currently to install the Medium version of phantomjs-prebuilt. This can be done via the following command:

npm i phantomjs-prebuilt

References

Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Feb 18, 2019
Reviewed Jun 16, 2020
Last updated Jan 9, 2023

Severity

High

EPSS score

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

This score estimates the probability of this vulnerability being exploited within the next 30 days. Data provided by FIRST.
(79th percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2016-10661

GHSA ID

GHSA-w364-8vfv-gvf5

Source code

No known source code
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