ghsa-w222-53c6-c86p
Vulnerability from github
Published
2018-01-23 03:57
Modified
2021-06-10 19:55
Severity ?
8.8 (High) - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
Remote Code Execution in electron
Details

Affected versions of electron may be susceptible to a remote code execution flaw when certain conditions are met: 1. The electron application is running on Windows. 2. The electron application registers as the default handler for a protocol, such as nodeapp://.

This vulnerability is caused by a failure to sanitize additional arguments to chromium in the command line handler for Electron.

MacOS and Linux are not vulnerable.

Recommendation

Update electron to a version that is not vulnerable. If updating is not possible, the electron team has provided the following guidance:

If for some reason you are unable to upgrade your Electron version, you can append -- as the last argument when calling app.setAsDefaultProtocolClient, which prevents Chromium from parsing further options. The double dash -- signifies the end of command options, after which only positional parameters are accepted. app.setAsDefaultProtocolClient(protocol, process.execPath, [ '--your-switches-here', '--' ])

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  "affected": [
    {
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "npm",
        "name": "electron"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "1.7.0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "1.7.11"
            }
          ],
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "npm",
        "name": "electron"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "1.6.0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "1.6.16"
            }
          ],
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "database_specific": {
        "last_known_affected_version_range": "\u003c= 1.8.2-beta.3"
      },
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        "ecosystem": "npm",
        "name": "electron"
      },
      "ranges": [
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            {
              "introduced": "1.8.0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "1.8.2-beta.4"
            }
          ],
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2018-1000006"
  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "cwe_ids": [
      "CWE-78"
    ],
    "github_reviewed": true,
    "github_reviewed_at": "2020-06-16T21:59:07Z",
    "nvd_published_at": null,
    "severity": "HIGH"
  },
  "details": "Affected versions of `electron` may be susceptible to a remote code execution flaw when certain conditions are met:\n1. The electron application is running on Windows.\n2. The electron application registers as the default handler for a protocol, such as `nodeapp://`.\n\nThis vulnerability is caused by a failure to sanitize additional arguments to chromium in the command line handler for Electron.\n\nMacOS and Linux are not vulnerable.\n\n\n## Recommendation\n\nUpdate electron to a version that is not vulnerable. If updating is not possible, the electron team has provided the following guidance:\n\n\nIf for some reason you are unable to upgrade your Electron version, you can append `--` as the last argument when calling `app.setAsDefaultProtocolClient`, which prevents Chromium from parsing further options. The double dash `--` signifies the end of command options, after which only positional parameters are accepted.\n```\napp.setAsDefaultProtocolClient(protocol, process.execPath, [\n  \u0027--your-switches-here\u0027,\n  \u0027--\u0027\n])\n```",
  "id": "GHSA-w222-53c6-c86p",
  "modified": "2021-06-10T19:55:43Z",
  "published": "2018-01-23T03:57:44Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-1000006"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://electronjs.org/blog/protocol-handler-fix"
    },
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-w222-53c6-c86p"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/electron/electron/releases/tag/v1.8.2-beta.4"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://medium.com/@Wflki/exploiting-electron-rce-in-exodus-wallet-d9e6db13c374"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/43899"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/44357"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://www.npmjs.com/advisories/563"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102796"
    }
  ],
  "schema_version": "1.4.0",
  "severity": [
    {
      "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H",
      "type": "CVSS_V3"
    }
  ],
  "summary": "Remote Code Execution in electron"
}


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