MEDIUM4.3

GHSA-6h98-cf9g-vmg2

Electron vulnerable to URL spoofing via PDFium

Quick fix

GHSA-6h98-cf9g-vmg2 — electron: upgrade to the fixed version with the command below.

npm install electron@1.7.6

Details

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.

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Affected packages

npm/electron

Introduced in: 1.7.0Fixed in: 1.7.6

Fixnpm install electron@1.7.6

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-1000424[ADVISORY]
https://github.com/electron/electron/pull/10008[WEB]
https://github.com/electron/electron/pull/10008/files[WEB]
https://github.com/electron/electron[PACKAGE]
https://github.com/electron/electron/releases/tag/v1.7.6[WEB]