FKIE_CVE-2025-29509

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2025-05-09 17:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 09:05
Severity
8.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
Jan v0.5.14 and before is vulnerable to remote code execution (RCE) when the user clicks on a rendered link in the conversation, due to opening external website in the app and the exposure of electronAPI, with a lack of filtering of URL when calling shell.openExternal().
References
cve@mitre.orghttps://drive.google.com/file/d/1qDztNtn2merSjYgPRLWFFXqlXM9tcrjD/view?usp=sharing
cve@mitre.orghttps://gist.github.com/Suuuuuzy/b8fa2fa083793c460e3686c182f8c4d1
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
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