Arbitrary Code Execution Affecting electron package, versions >=1.7.0 <1.7.13>=1.8.1 <1.8.4>=2.0.0-beta.1 <2.0.0-beta.4


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.01% (85th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDnpm:electron:20180323
  • published27 Mar 2018
  • disclosed23 Mar 2018
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 23 Mar 2018

CVE-2018-1000136  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-228  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade electron to version 1.7.13, 1.8.4, 2.0.0-beta.4 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 contains an improper handling of values vulnerability in Webviews. This attack appear to be exploitable via an app which allows execution of 3rd party code AND disallows node integration AND has not specified if webview is enabled/disabled.

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