CVE-2017-1000424
Electron vulnerable to URL spoofing via PDFium
4.3
MEDIUM
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 0.27%
Description
Electron version 1.7.0 - 1.7.5 is vulnerable to a URL Spoofing problem when opening PDFs in PDFium resulting loading arbitrary PDFs that a hacker can control.
How to fix CVE-2017-1000424
To remediate CVE-2017-1000424, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- npm/electron—upgrade to 1.7.6 or later
Is CVE-2017-1000424 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 0.3%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (1)
- >= 1.7.0, < 1.7.6
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | MEDIUM4.3 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N |