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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MITRE
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published: 2017-08-06T02:00:00
Updated: 2024-08-05T18:43:56.211Z
Reserved: 2017-08-05T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2017-12581
Vulnrichment
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NVD
Status : Modified
Published: 2017-08-06T02:29:00.227
Modified: 2024-11-21T03:09:47.773
Link: CVE-2017-12581
Redhat
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