What is CVE-2016-10679?

CVE-2016-10679 is a high-severity vulnerability in Hackerone Selenium-Standalone-Painful Node Module, classified under Missing Encryption of Sensitive Data. CVSS score: 8.1/10. Published 2018-05-29.

How severe is CVE-2016-10679?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 8.1 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Hackerone Selenium-Standalone-Painful Node Module

CVE-2016-10679

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.

EPSS: 0.020 (78.9th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 8.1 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

Affected products

Hackerone Selenium-standalone-painful Node Module — versions All versions
Selenium-standalone-painful_project Selenium-standalone-painful

Weakness classification (CWE)

References

support@hackerone.com (Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2016-10679?: CVE-2016-10679 is a high-severity vulnerability in Hackerone Selenium-Standalone-Painful Node Module, classified under Missing Encryption of Sensitive Data. CVSS score: 8.1/10. Published 2018-05-29.
How severe is CVE-2016-10679?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 8.1 out of 10.