cve-2017-12581
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2017-08-06 02:00
Modified
2024-08-05 18:43
Severity ?
Summary
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.
References
cve@mitre.orghttps://blog.doyensec.com/2017/08/03/electron-framework-security.htmlExploit, Technical Description, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://doyensec.com/resources/us-17-Carettoni-Electronegativity-A-Study-Of-Electron-Security.pdfExploit, Technical Description, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://blog.doyensec.com/2017/08/03/electron-framework-security.htmlExploit, Technical Description, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://doyensec.com/resources/us-17-Carettoni-Electronegativity-A-Study-Of-Electron-Security.pdfExploit, Technical Description, Third Party Advisory
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