CVE-2016-10526

Severity: high (CVSS 8.6 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2018-05-31 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-391

Description

A common setup to deploy to gh-pages on every commit via a CI system is to expose a github token to ENV and to use it directly in the auth part of the url. In module versions < 0.9.1 the auth portion of the url is outputted as part of the grunt tasks logging function. If this output is publicly available then the credentials should be considered compromised.

Affected products

HackerOne grunt-gh-pages node module: before 0.9.1 — fixed in 0.9.1

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: HackerOne grunt-gh-pages node module 0.9.1. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

https://github.com/tschaub/grunt-gh-pages/pull/41
https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/85
https://github.com/tschaub/grunt-gh-pages/pull/41
https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/85

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