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GHSA-W222-53C6-C86P

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2018-01-23 03:57 – Updated: 2021-06-10 19:55

Summary

Remote Code Execution in electron

Details

Affected versions of electron may be susceptible to a remote code execution flaw when certain conditions are met: 1. The electron application is running on Windows. 2. The electron application registers as the default handler for a protocol, such as nodeapp://.

This vulnerability is caused by a failure to sanitize additional arguments to chromium in the command line handler for Electron.

MacOS and Linux are not vulnerable.

Recommendation

Update electron to a version that is not vulnerable. If updating is not possible, the electron team has provided the following guidance:

If for some reason you are unable to upgrade your Electron version, you can append -- as the last argument when calling app.setAsDefaultProtocolClient, which prevents Chromium from parsing further options. The double dash -- signifies the end of command options, after which only positional parameters are accepted.

app.setAsDefaultProtocolClient(protocol, process.execPath, [
  '--your-switches-here',
  '--'
])

Severity

8.8 (High)


                  
                    CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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  "modified": "2021-06-10T19:55:43Z",
  "published": "2018-01-23T03:57:44Z",
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    {
      "type": "WEB",
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    },
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}

CVE-2018-1000006 (GCVE-0-2018-1000006)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2018-01-24 23:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 12:33

Summary

GitHub Electron versions 1.8.2-beta.3 and earlier, 1.7.10 and earlier, 1.6.15 and earlier has a vulnerability in the protocol handler, specifically Electron apps running on Windows 10, 7 or 2008 that register custom protocol handlers can be tricked in arbitrary command execution if the user clicks on a specially crafted URL. This has been fixed in versions 1.8.2-beta.4, 1.7.11, and 1.6.16.

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

Assigner

mitre mitre root

References

6 references

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http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102796	vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/44357/	exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DB

Date Public

2018-01-22 00:00

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