URL Spoofing Affecting electron package, versions <1.7.6
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
User Interaction
Required
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.05% (20th
percentile)
Do your applications use this vulnerable package?
In a few clicks we can analyze your entire application and see what components are vulnerable in your application, and suggest you quick fixes.
Test your applications- Snyk ID npm:electron:20180102
- published 6 Feb 2018
- disclosed 2 Jan 2018
- credit Unknown
Introduced: 2 Jan 2018
CVE-2017-1000424 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade electron to version 1.7.6 or higher.
Overview
electron is a framework which lets you write cross-platform desktop applications using JavaScript, HTML and CSS.
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to URL Spoofing. When opening PDFs in PDFium resulting loading arbitrary PDFs that a hacker can control.