CVE-2016-10679

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Summary

CVECVE-2016-10679
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2018-05-29 20:29:00 UTC
Updated2019-10-09 23:17:00 UTC
Descriptionselenium-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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-310

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Selenium-standalone-painful Project Selenium-standalone-painful All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Overview MISC nodesecurity.io Third Party Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 983432 Nodejs (npm) Security Update for selenium-standalone-painful (GHSA-3x83-p476-vv95)

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