Security Advisory

CVE-2017-12581

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2017-08-06 02:00:00

Last updated 2024-08-05 18:43:56

Assigner mitre

CVSS score not scored

State PUBLISHED

Description

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.

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