CVE-2017-12581 - CVE House

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Status published High CVE-2017-12581

GitHub Electron before 1.6.8 allows remote command execution because of...

8.1 CVSS

Vulnerability 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.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

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Credits & Attribution

No credits recorded in the NVD database.

References

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Affected Vendor

electron

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Affected Software

electron

Vulnerable Versions:

0

Timeline

Official Publish: August 6th, 2017

Last Modified: August 5th, 2024

Added to House: July 20th, 2026

CVSS Vectors

V3: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.