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CVE-2016-10679 Details

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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.x Severity and Vector Strings:

NIST: [email protected]CVSS-B:8.1 HIGHVector:CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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URL	Source(s)	Tag(s)
https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/284	CVE	Third Party Advisory
https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/284	[email protected]	Third Party Advisory

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID	CWE Name	Source
CWE-310	Cryptographic Issues	[email protected]
CWE-311	Missing Encryption of Sensitive Data	[email protected]

Affected Products

Product	Versions
selenium-standalone-painful project selenium-standalone-painful	<= 2.39.0-2.7.0
CPE cpe:2.3:a:selenium-standalone-painful_project:selenium-standalone-painful::::::node.js::* Remediation No remediation found in references.

Change History

5 change records found show changes

Date	Action	Recorded By
Jun 17, 2026	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Nov 21, 2024	CVE Modified	CVE
May 14, 2024	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Oct 9, 2019	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Jul 5, 2018	Initial Analysis	[email protected]