CVE-2018-1000006

State: Published
Severity: Not scored
Published: Jan 24, 2018
Updated: Aug 5, 2024
Reserved: Jan 19, 2018

Description

GitHub Electron versions 1.8.2-beta.3 and earlier, 1.7.10 and earlier, 1.6.15 and earlier has a vulnerability in the protocol handler, specifically Electron apps running on Windows 10, 7 or 2008 that register custom protocol handlers can be tricked in arbitrary command execution if the user clicks on a specially crafted URL. This has been fixed in versions 1.8.2-beta.4, 1.7.11, and 1.6.16.

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
n/an/a	n/aAffected

References

43899exploit
https://github.com/electron/electron/releases/tag/v1.8.2-beta.4
https://medium.com/%40Wflki/exploiting-electron-rce-in-exodus-wallet-d9e6db13c374
https://electronjs.org/blog/protocol-handler-fix
102796vdb-entry
44357exploit

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