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Electron vulnerable to URL spoofing via PDFium

Moderate severity GitHub Reviewed Published May 13, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Sep 13, 2023

Package

npm Electron (npm)

Affected versions

>= 1.7.0, < 1.7.6

Patched versions

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.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Jan 2, 2018
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database May 13, 2022
Reviewed Sep 15, 2022
Last updated Sep 13, 2023

Severity

Moderate

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
Required
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
Low
Availability
None

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

EPSS score

0.081%
(36th percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2017-1000424

GHSA ID

GHSA-6h98-cf9g-vmg2

Source code

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