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High · 8.1 CVE-2017-12581 EUVD-2022-2989GHSA-7fv9-m79r-j9x8

Electron vulnerable to remote command execution

Published Aug 6, 2017 · Updated Aug 5, 2024 · Assigned by mitre

Description

GitHub Electron before 1.6.8 allows remote command execution because of a nodeIntegration bypass vulnerability. This also affects all applications that bundle Electron code equivalent to 1.6.8 or earlier. Bypassing the Same Origin Policy (SOP) is a precondition; however, recent Electron versions do not have strict SOP enforcement. Combining an SOP bypass with a privileged URL internally used by Electron, it was possible to execute native Node.js primitives in order to run OS commands on the user's host. Specifically, a chrome-devtools://devtools/bundled/inspector.html window could be used to eval a Node.js child_process.execFile API call.

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
npm electron < 1.6.8 1.6.8 GHSA-7fv9-m79r-j9x8

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