PT-2018-5199 · Electron+1 · Electron+1

Qazbnm456 · Published 2018-01-02 · Updated 2022-05-13 · CVE-2017-1000424

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

4.3

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Electron versions 1.6.4 through 1.6.11 Electron versions 1.7.0 through 1.7.5

Description The issue allows for a URL Spoofing problem when opening PDFs in PDFium, resulting in the loading of arbitrary PDFs that a hacker can control.

Recommendations For Electron versions 1.6.4 through 1.6.11, update to a version outside of this range to resolve the issue. For Electron versions 1.7.0 through 1.7.5, update to a version outside of this range to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting the use of PDFium for opening PDFs until a patch is available.

Exploit

Fix

Insufficient Verification of Data Authenticity

Authentication Bypass by Spoofing

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-345

CWE-290

Related Identifiers

CVE-2017-1000424

GHSA-6H98-CF9G-VMG2

Affected Products

Electron

Pdfium

References · 7

• 🔥 https://github.com/electron/electron/pull/10008/files · Exploit
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-1000424 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-6h98-cf9g-vmg2 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2017-1000424 · Vendor Advisory
• https://github.com/electron/electron · Note
• https://github.com/electron/electron/releases/tag/v1.7.6 · Note
• https://github.com/electron/electron/pull/10008 · Note