CVE-2016-10679

HIGH

Selenium-standalone-painful < 2.39.0-2.7.0 - Missing Encryption

Title source: rule
STIX 2.1

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.

References (1)

Core 1
Core References
Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/284

Scores

CVSS v3 8.1
EPSS 0.0073
EPSS Percentile 72.9%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-310 CWE-311
Status published
Products (2)
npm/selenium-standalone-painful npm
selenium-standalone-painful_project/selenium-standalone-painful < 2.39.0-2.7.0
Published May 29, 2018
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026