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Security Advisories: MDE2OlNlY3VyaXR5QWR2aXNvcnlHSFNBLXcyMjItNTNjNi1jODZw

Remote Code Execution in electron

Affected versions of electron may be susceptible to a remote code execution flaw when certain conditions are met:

  1. The electron application is running on Windows.
  2. The electron application registers as the default handler for a protocol, such as nodeapp://.

This vulnerability is caused by a failure to sanitize additional arguments to chromium in the command line handler for Electron.

MacOS and Linux are not vulnerable.

Recommendation

Update electron to a version that is not vulnerable. If updating is not possible, the electron team has provided the following guidance:

If for some reason you are unable to upgrade your Electron version, you can append -- as the last argument when calling app.setAsDefaultProtocolClient, which prevents Chromium from parsing further options. The double dash -- signifies the end of command options, after which only positional parameters are accepted.

app.setAsDefaultProtocolClient(protocol, process.execPath, [
  '--your-switches-here',
  '--'
])
Permalink: https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-w222-53c6-c86p
JSON: https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories/MDE2OlNlY3VyaXR5QWR2aXNvcnlHSFNBLXcyMjItNTNjNi1jODZw
Source: GitHub Advisory Database
Origin: Unspecified
Severity: High
Classification: General
Published: almost 7 years ago
Updated: almost 2 years ago


CVSS Score: 8.8
CVSS vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Identifiers: GHSA-w222-53c6-c86p, CVE-2018-1000006
References: Repository: https://github.com/electron/electron
Blast Radius: 43.7

Affected Packages

npm:electron
Dependent packages: 5,167
Dependent repositories: 93,246
Downloads: 3,165,628 last month
Affected Version Ranges: >= 1.8.0, <= 1.8.2-beta.3, >= 1.6.0, < 1.6.16, >= 1.7.0, < 1.7.11
Fixed in: 1.8.2-beta.4, 1.6.16, 1.7.11
All affected versions: 1.6.0, 1.6.1, 1.6.2, 1.6.3, 1.6.4, 1.6.5, 1.6.6, 1.6.7, 1.6.8, 1.6.9, 1.6.10, 1.6.11, 1.6.12, 1.6.13, 1.6.14, 1.6.15, 1.7.0, 1.7.1, 1.7.2, 1.7.3, 1.7.4, 1.7.5, 1.7.6, 1.7.7, 1.7.8, 1.7.9, 1.7.10, 1.8.1, 1.8.2-beta.1, 1.8.2-beta.2, 1.8.2-beta.3
All unaffected versions: 0.1.0, 0.1.1, 0.1.2, 0.2.0, 0.2.1, 0.3.0, 0.4.0, 0.4.1, 1.3.1, 1.3.2, 1.3.3, 1.3.4, 1.3.5, 1.3.6, 1.3.7, 1.3.8, 1.3.9, 1.3.10, 1.3.12, 1.3.13, 1.3.14, 1.3.15, 1.4.0, 1.4.1, 1.4.2, 1.4.3, 1.4.4, 1.4.5, 1.4.6, 1.4.7, 1.4.8, 1.4.10, 1.4.11, 1.4.12, 1.4.13, 1.4.14, 1.4.15, 1.4.16, 1.5.0, 1.5.1, 1.6.16, 1.6.17, 1.6.18, 1.7.11, 1.7.12, 1.7.13, 1.7.14, 1.7.15, 1.7.16, 1.8.2, 1.8.3, 1.8.4, 1.8.5, 1.8.6, 1.8.7, 1.8.8, 2.0.0, 2.0.1, 2.0.2, 2.0.3, 2.0.4, 2.0.5, 2.0.6, 2.0.7, 2.0.8, 2.0.9, 2.0.10, 2.0.11, 2.0.12, 2.0.13, 2.0.14, 2.0.15, 2.0.16, 2.0.17, 2.0.18, 3.0.0, 3.0.1, 3.0.2, 3.0.3, 3.0.4, 3.0.5, 3.0.6, 3.0.7, 3.0.8, 3.0.9, 3.0.10, 3.0.11, 3.0.12, 3.0.13, 3.0.14, 3.0.15, 3.0.16, 3.1.0, 3.1.1, 3.1.2, 3.1.3, 3.1.4, 3.1.5, 3.1.6, 3.1.7, 3.1.8, 3.1.9, 3.1.10, 3.1.11, 3.1.12, 3.1.13, 4.0.0, 4.0.1, 4.0.2, 4.0.3, 4.0.4, 4.0.5, 4.0.6, 4.0.7, 4.0.8, 4.1.0, 4.1.1, 4.1.2, 4.1.3, 4.1.4, 4.1.5, 4.2.0, 4.2.1, 4.2.2, 4.2.3, 4.2.4, 4.2.5, 4.2.6, 4.2.7, 4.2.8, 4.2.9, 4.2.10, 4.2.11, 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