GHSA-6h98-cf9g-vmg2

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    GHSA-6h98-cf9g-vmg2

    Published: 13 May 2022Last Modified: 8 Nov 2023

    Summary: Electron vulnerable to URL spoofing via PDFium

    Details: 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: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-1000424, https://github.com/electron/electron/pull/10008, https://github.com/electron/electron/pull/10008/files, https://github.com/electron/electron, https://github.com/electron/electron/releases/tag/v1.7.6

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: electron

    Purl: pkg:npm/electron

    Affected ranges

    Type: SEMVER

    Events:

    Introduced- 1.7.0
    Fixed -1.7.6

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
    GHSA-6h98-cf9g-vmg2 | CVE-DB