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URL Spoofing Affecting electron package, versions <1.7.6

Severity

 Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.06% (27th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID npm:electron:20180102
  • published 6 Feb 2018
  • disclosed 2 Jan 2018
  • credit Unknown
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Introduced: 2 Jan 2018

CVE-2017-1000424 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-19 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Upgrade electron to version 1.7.6 or higher.

Overview

electron is a framework which lets you write cross-platform desktop applications using JavaScript, HTML and CSS.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to URL Spoofing. When opening PDFs in PDFium resulting loading arbitrary PDFs that a hacker can control.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Snyk

4.3 medium
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    None
  • User Interaction (UI)
    Required
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    None
  • Integrity (I)
    Low
  • Availability (A)
    None