CVE-2017-1000424 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

Github Electron version 1.6.4 - 1.6.11 and 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.

Published: 2018-01-02

Score: 4.3 Medium

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

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affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:a:atom:electron::::::::
	cpe:2.3:a:atom:electron::::::::

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2022-2801	Github Electron version 1.6.4 - 1.6.11 and 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.
Github GHSA	GHSA-6h98-cf9g-vmg2	Electron vulnerable to URL spoofing via PDFium

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact Low

Availability Impact None

User Interaction Required

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Medium

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact Partial

Availability Impact None

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00273.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
https://github.com/electron/electron/pull/10008
https://github.com/electron/electron/pull/10008/files

History

No history.

Subscriptions

Atom Electron

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2018-01-02T20:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-09-16T20:27:54.138Z

Reserved: 2018-01-02T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2017-1000424

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2018-01-02T20:29:00.283

Modified: 2024-11-21T03:04:42.700

Link: CVE-2017-1000424

Redhat

No data.

OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

NVD-CWE-noinfo

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