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SCA: security update for electron (GHSA-fjqr-fx3f-g4rv)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 423415

Description

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

 - Github Electron version Electron 1.8.2-beta.4 and earlier contains a Command Injection vulnerability in
 Protocol Handler that can result in command execute. This attack appear to be exploitable via the victim
 opening an electron protocol handler in their browser. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in
 Electron 1.8.2-beta.5. This issue is due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2018-1000006, specifically the black
 list used was not case insensitive allowing an attacker to potentially bypass it. (CVE-2018-1000118)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-fjqr-fx3f-g4rv

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 423415

Version: Revision 1.3

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 3/29/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 57.12

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.3

Temporal Score: 6.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-1000118

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.7

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:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/26/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/7/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-1000118

cwe: CWE-78