GitHub Advisoryadvisory · npm

GHSA-6h98-cf9g-vmg2 Electron vulnerable to URL spoofing via PDFium

MEDIUM Published 2022-05-13 Modified 2022-09-15 Official page ↗
Aliases
CVE-2017-1000424
Ecosystem
npm
Packages
electron
Severity
Moderate
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-290, CWE-345
Reviewed
2022-09-15

Affected packages

• npm electron: >= 1.7.0, < 1.7.6 → fixed in 1.7.6

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.

Related

Alias · CVE (1)

  • CVE-2017-1000424 Github Electron version 1.6.4 - 1.6.11 and 1.7.0 - 1.7.5 is vulnerable to a URL Spoofing problem when opening PDFs in PDFium resulting… vulnerability

Weakness · CWE (2)

  • CWE-290 Authentication Bypass by Spoofing weakness
  • CWE-345 Insufficient Verification of Data Authenticity weakness

References