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SCA: security update for electron (GHSA-w222-53c6-c86p)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 422740

Description

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

 - GitHub Electron versions 1.8.2-beta.3 and earlier, 1.7.10 and earlier, 1.6.15 and earlier has a
 vulnerability in the protocol handler, specifically Electron apps running on Windows 10, 7 or 2008 that
 register custom protocol handlers can be tricked in arbitrary command execution if the user clicks on a
 specially crafted URL. This has been fixed in versions 1.8.2-beta.4, 1.7.11, and 1.6.16.
 (CVE-2018-1000006)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-w222-53c6-c86p

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 422740

Version: Revision 1.3

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 3/29/2025

Updated: 1/28/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.4

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.3

Temporal Score: 7.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-1000006

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 8.2

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/23/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/22/2018

Exploitable With

Metasploit (Exodus Wallet (ElectronJS Framework) remote Code Execution)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-1000006

BID: 102796

cwe: CWE-78