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Arbitrary Code Execution Affecting electron package, versions <1.8.2-beta.5

Severity

 Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.15% (52nd percentile)

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  • Snyk ID npm:electron:20180307
  • published 12 Mar 2018
  • disclosed 7 Mar 2018
  • credit Unknown
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Introduced: 7 Mar 2018

CVE-2018-1000118 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-264 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Upgrade electron to version 1.8.2-beta.5 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 Arbitrary Code Execution. It appears to be exploitable via the victim opening an electron protocol handler in their browser.

This issue is due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2018-1000006, specifically the black list used was not case insensitive allowing an attacker to potentially bypass it.

CVSS Scores

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Snyk

Recommended
7.8 high
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Local
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    Low
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    High
  • Integrity (I)
    High
  • Availability (A)
    High