GHSA-7fv9-m79r-j9x8HighCVSS 8.1

Electron vulnerable to remote command execution

Published
May 17, 2022
Last Modified
October 19, 2023

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

📋 Description

Electron before 1.6.8 allows remote command execution because of a nodeIntegration bypass vulnerability. This also affects all applications that bundle Electron code equivalent to 1.6.8 or earlier. Bypassing the Same Origin Policy (SOP) is a precondition; however, recent Electron versions do not have strict SOP enforcement. Combining an SOP bypass with a privileged URL internally used by Electron, it was possible to execute native Node.js primitives in order to run OS commands on the user's host. Specifically, a chrome-devtools://devtools/bundled/inspector.html window could be used to eval a Node.js child_process.execFile API call.

🎯 Affected products1

  • npm/electron:< 1.6.8

🔗 References (5)