CVE-2017-12581

GitHub Electron before 1.6.8 allows remote command execution because of a nodeIntegration bypass vulnerability

published August 6, 2017

CVSS
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EPSS
7%
Percentile
93.8
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

GitHub 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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.06693 · 93.8th percentile
Published
2017-08-06T02:00Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 06 AUG 02:00Z
    GitHub Electron before 1.6.8 allows remote command execution because of a nodeIntegration bypass vulnerability
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