🛡️ CVE-2025-59288 on npm (Root.io) — playwright

Distribution advisory

This page covers CVE-2025-59288 as tracked by npm (Root.io), for the package playwright. The fix is available in version 1.49.0-root.io.2; earlier versions remain affected.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached from an adjacent network, attack complexity is high, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity none, availability none.

CVSS metrics in full

The score comes from this vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

• Attack vector: Adjacent network — the attacker has to sit on the same local or logical network.
• Attack complexity: High — the attacker first has to win a race, learn a secret or otherwise prepare the target.
• Privileges required: None — an unauthenticated stranger can try it.
• User interaction: None — nobody has to be tricked into anything.
• Scope: Unchanged — the damage stays inside the vulnerable component.
• Confidentiality impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.
• Integrity impact: None.
• Availability impact: None.

Weakness class

ROOT-APP-NPM-CVE-2025-59288 is classified as CWE-347: Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature. A signature is not checked correctly, so forged or modified content is accepted as genuine.

Affected software

ROOT-APP-NPM-CVE-2025-59288 is recorded against 4 packages.

• @rootio/playwright (fixed in 1.49.0-root.io.2)
• @rootio/playwright-core (fixed in 1.49.0-root.io.2)
• playwright (fixed in 1.49.0-aikido.2)
• playwright-core (fixed in 1.49.0-aikido.2)

Timeline and source

Published on 4 June 2026 and last revised on 5 June 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

Same weakness in other software

These advisories are the same class of weakness (CWE-347: Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature) in other software:

• CVE-2026-55165 (4.8 Medium, published 18 Aug 2026)
• CVE-2026-47192 (2.0 Low, published 14 Aug 2026)
• CVE-2026-47191 (2.0 Low, published 14 Aug 2026)
• CVE-2026-48791 (2.0 Low, published 13 Aug 2026)
• CVE-2026-59112 (published 10 Aug 2026)
• CVE-2026-10754 (published 10 Aug 2026)
• CVE-2026-62918 (7.5 High, published 7 Aug 2026)
• CVE-2026-62873 (9.8 Critical, published 7 Aug 2026)

CVE-2025-59288 on other distributions

Each distribution ships its own build and its own fixed version. Pick the one you run:

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