CVE-2024-1648 (GCVE-0-2024-1648)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-02-20 00:01 – Updated: 2025-12-03 20:19
VLAI
Title
electron-pdf 20.0.0 - Local File Read via Server Side XSS
Summary
electron-pdf version 20.0.0 allows an external attacker to remotely obtain arbitrary local files. This is possible because the application does not validate the HTML content entered by the user.
Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-79 - Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Date Public
2024-02-20 23:59
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