GHSA-6h98-cf9g-vmg2 CVE-2017-1000424
Electron vulnerable to URL spoofing via PDFium
- Severity
- 4.3 / 10
- Medium · CVSS 3.0
- Exploit chance (EPSS)
- 0.98%
- Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Higher than 62.30% of scored vulnerabilities.
- Known exploited
- No
- Not in CISA's catalog
- Weakness
- CWE-290 Authentication Bypass by Spoofing
- CWE-345 Insufficient Verification of Data Authenticity
- Fix
1.7.6- Upgrade electron to this version or later
Description
Electron version 1.7.0 - 1.7.5 is vulnerable to a URL Spoofing problem when opening PDFs in PDFium resulting loading arbitrary PDFs that a hacker can control.
Affected versions
npm
| Package | Vulnerable | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| electron | >= 1.7.0, < 1.7.6 |
1.7.6 |
How to fix
Move to the fixed version or later with your package manager, update the lockfile, and run your tests. If the package only arrives through another dependency, upgrade that dependency first. If none of its releases pulls a fixed version yet, force the version with your package manager's override.
electron npm → 1.7.6
- npm
npm install electron@1.7.6- yarn
yarn add electron@1.7.6- pnpm
pnpm add electron@1.7.6
Severity breakdown
CVSS 3.0 4.3
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
- Attack vector
- Network
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- Required
- Scope
- Unchanged
- Confidentiality
- None
- Integrity
- Low
- Availability
- None
Weakness
CWE-290: Authentication Bypass by Spoofing
This attack-focused weakness is caused by incorrectly implemented authentication schemes that are subject to spoofing attacks.
CWE-345: Insufficient Verification of Data Authenticity
The product does not sufficiently verify the origin or authenticity of data, in a way that causes it to accept invalid data.
References
Advisories
Packages
Other links
Timeline
- Published
- Last updated by the source
- Latest EPSS score
Related advisories
| Advisory | Severity | Why it's related |
|---|---|---|
| GHSA-qqvq-6xgj-jw8g Electron affected by libvpx's heap buffer overflow in vp8 encoding | High Known exploited | Also affects electron |
| GHSA-j7hp-h8jx-5ppr libwebp: OOB write in BuildHuffmanTable | High Known exploited | Also affects electron |
| GHSA-995f-9x5r-2rcj Heap buffer overflow in GPU | Critical Known exploited | Also affects electron |
| GHSA-jr5w-w6x2-84p9 Electron: Mitigation for compromised eMudhra intermediate certificates | High | Also affects electron |
| GHSA-h3v5-h239-pg29 Electron: Off-screen rendering on macOS trusts GPU-supplied frame geometry | Low | Also affects electron |
| GHSA-3qxv-5xgr-q7w9 Electron: Frame subscription trusts GPU-supplied frame geometry | Low | Also affects electron |
| GHSA-997q-gvvc-jwmx Electron: openExternal permission requests can be attributed to the wrong origin | Medium | Also affects electron |
| GHSA-fw47-9c62-h3vw Electron: HID and USB permission checks can be attributed to the wrong origin | Medium | Also affects electron |
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