Is UiPath Web Automation 22.4 safe?
UiPath Web Automation injects into all web pages, captures user interactions, and relays them to a local UiPath robot via native messaging.
The extension registers mouse, keyboard, and scroll event listeners on every page (including iframes) and forwards captured DOM interactions and page metadata to a locally installed UiPath robot process through a native messaging host. It also attaches Chrome's Debugger API to its own background page to dynamically evaluate automation driver code received from the native host, enabling UiPath to load new automation logic without a full extension update. Additionally, the extension silently disables a deprecated predecessor extension (dpncpimghfponcpjkgihfikppbbhchil) on each startup if it is found enabled.
Who publishes itUiPath inc. - 4 other listings from the same operator, none carrying a finding
UiPath inc. - 4 other listings from the same operator, none carrying a finding
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4 other listings published from this account, 200k+ users between them, none of them carrying a finding.
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What it can do
Permissions this extension asks for, as declared in version 22.4.8. Asking for a permission is not a finding on its own - it is what the extension can do if it chooses to.
Read and change your data on every site you visit
<all_urls>
See, disable and uninstall your other extensions, including your security ones
management
Talk to a program installed on your computer, outside the browser's sandbox
nativeMessaging
See the address and title of every tab you have open
tabs
See every page you navigate to, as you navigate to it
webNavigation
Attach to pages with the browser's debugger, which can read and rewrite anything on them
debugger
Read and change cookies, including the ones that keep you signed in
cookies
Run its own code inside the pages you visit
scripting
Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed UiPath Web Automation 22.4 contacting. Sending data somewhere is not a finding on its own - an extension that syncs your settings has to talk to its own server - but it is where your data can go, and who else it goes to.
- com.uipath.chromenativemsg_v2
UiPath Web Automation 22.4 sends data to com.uipath.chromenativemsg_v2. No other extension we have analysed sends data here.
- com.uipath.portable_host
UiPath Web Automation 22.4 sends data to com.uipath.portable_host. No other extension we have analysed sends data here.