Bug 2403843 (CVE-2025-59288)

Summary: CVE-2025-59288 playwright: Playwright Spoofing Vulnerability
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: OSIDB Bzimport <bzimport>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Product Security DevOps Team <prodsec-dev>
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Version: unspecifiedCC: alcohan, asoldano, bbaranow, bmaxwell, brian.stansberry, chfoley, darran.lofthouse, dhanak, dkreling, dosoudil, drosa, dsimansk, gparvin, istudens, ivassile, iweiss, jbalunas, jkoehler, kingland, kverlaen, lphiri, matzew, mnovotny, mosmerov, msochure, msvehla, nwallace, owatkins, pahickey, pesilva, pjindal, pmackay, rhaigner, rstancel, sausingh, sdawley, smaestri, swoodman, tom.jenkinson
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A certificate verification flaw has been discovered in the npm Playwright package. Certificate validation is disabled for some processes and an attacker who is adjacent on the network could exploit this by spoofing a url and inject code or files into the Playwright execution path.
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Bug Depends On: 2404313, 2404314, 2404315    
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-10-14 18:02:18 UTC
Improper verification of cryptographic signature in GitHub allows an unauthorized attacker to perform spoofing over an adjacent network.