High severity8.1NVD Advisory· Published May 29, 2018· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2016-10679
CVE-2016-10679
Description
selenium-standalone-painful installs a start-selenium command line to start a standalone selenium server with chrome-driver. selenium-standalone-painful 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 resources with an attacker controlled copy if the attacker is on the network or positioned in between the user and the remote server.
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Affected products
2- ghsa-coords
- HackerOne/selenium-standalone-painful node modulev5Range: All versions
Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
References
4- github.com/advisories/GHSA-3x83-p476-vv95ghsaADVISORY
- nodesecurity.io/advisories/284nvdThird Party Advisory
- nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-10679ghsaADVISORY
- www.npmjs.com/advisories/284ghsaWEB
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