{"cve":"CVE-2016-10679","nvd":{"published":"2018-05-29T20:29:01.940","modified":"2026-06-17T00:40:09.120","status":"Modified","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.","cvss_v4":null,"cvss_v3":{"version":"3.0","vector":"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","score":8.1},"cwes":["CWE-310","CWE-311"],"references":["https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/284","https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/284"],"products":["selenium-standalone-painful_project:selenium-standalone-painful"],"source":"nvd","synced_at":"2026-10-19T20:50:40.212176939+00:00"},"epss":{"cve":"CVE-2016-10679","score":0.01989,"percentile":0.80641,"date":"2026-10-31"},"kev":null,"osv":[{"id":"GHSA-3x83-p476-vv95","url":"https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-3x83-p476-vv95","summary":"Downloads Resources over HTTP in selenium-standalone-painful","modified":"2023-11-08T03:58:19.907722Z","packages":[{"ecosystem":"npm","name":"selenium-standalone-painful","purl":"pkg:npm/selenium-standalone-painful","ranges":["2.39.0-2.7.0"],"fixed":[]}]}],"attribution":["This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.","EPSS scores: FIRST Exploit Prediction Scoring System, https://www.first.org/epss","Known exploited vulnerabilities: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","Package advisories: OSV (https://osv.dev), from the GitHub Advisory Database, PyPA, Go, RustSec and other ecosystem databases, under CC-BY 4.0 or CC0","CVE records: the CVE Program's CVE List (https://www.cve.org), under its terms of use (https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse). CVE is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation; this product is not affiliated with the CVE Program."]}