HackerOne electron node module

CVE-2017-16151
CRITICAL 9.8

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 2.67 % · percentile 86 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
hackerone
NVD status
Modified

Description

Based on details posted by the ElectronJS team; A remote code execution vulnerability has been discovered in Google Chromium that affects all recent versions of Electron. Any Electron app that accesses remote content is vulnerable to this exploit, regardless of whether the [sandbox option](https://electron.atom.io/docs/api/sandbox-option) is enabled.

Weaknesses (CWE)

  • CWE-94 — Improper Control of Generation of Code

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.0CRITICAL 9.8CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)
CVSS 2.0HIGH 7.5AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:PNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

Advisories

European references

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
HackerOne · electron node moduleaffected < 1.6.14 || >= 1.7.0 < 1.7.8

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD