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SCA: security update for Electron (GHSA-6h98-cf9g-vmg2)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 411460

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - Github Electron version 1.6.4 - 1.6.11 and 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. (CVE-2017-1000424)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-6h98-cf9g-vmg2

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 411460

Version: Revision 1.3

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 1/23/2025

Updated: 8/19/2025

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 1.4

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-1000424

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/13/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/2/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-1000424