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CVE-2018-15685

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Date: August 23, 2018

GitHub Electron 1.7.15, 1.8.7, 2.0.7, and 3.0.0-beta.6, in certain scenarios involving IFRAME elements and "nativeWindowOpen: true" or "sandbox: true" options, is affected by a WebPreferences vulnerability that can be leveraged to perform remote code execution.

Language: JS

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Related Resources (12)

https://github.com/electron/electron/commit/ef0a6d9a1c96efc4657c6dd3a6624eba969f095b
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-15685
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/45272/
https://github.com/electron/electron/commit/519a02d8d4d28e8a467acb40fb26172a80c9454f
https://electronjs.org/blog/web-preferences-fix
https://github.com/electron/electron/commit/80221e52d93a96ea704cb6748ead669c55cff504
https://www.npmjs.com/advisories/732
https://www.contrastsecurity.com/security-influencers/cve-2018-15685
https://github.com/electron/electron
https://github.com/electron/electron/commit/bab968ca776be28791e4dddfd50c86bd5fae62fa
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/45272
https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2018-15685

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Weakness Type (CWE)

Security Features

CWE-254

Insecure Default Initialization of Resource

CWE-1188

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CVSS v3.1

Base Score:
Attack Vector (AV): NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC): HIGH
Privileges Required (PR): NONE
User Interaction (UI): NONE
Scope (S): UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C): HIGH
Integrity (I): HIGH
Availability (A): HIGH

CVSS v2

Base Score:
Access Vector (AV): NETWORK
Access Complexity (AC): MEDIUM
Authentication (AU): NONE
Confidentiality (C): PARTIAL
Integrity (I): PARTIAL
Availability (A): PARTIAL
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