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high 8.1

CVE-2018-1000136 json

Electron Vulnerable to Code Execution by Re-Enabling Node.js Integration

published 8y ago modified 4mo ago also GHSA-8xwg-wv7v-4vqp , EUVD-2018-0178

cvss
8.1
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
5.1%
EPSS 5.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 92%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Electron version 1.7 up to 1.7.12; 1.8 up to 1.8.3 and 2.0.0 up to 2.0.0-beta.3 contains an improper handling of values vulnerability in Webviews that can result in remote code execution. This attack appear to be exploitable via an app which allows execution of 3rd party code AND disallows node integration AND has not specified if webview is enabled/disabled. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in 1.7.13, 1.8.4, 2.0.0-beta.4.

Patch / fix

  • npm electron 1.7.13, 1.8.4, 2.0.0-beta.5

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Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2018-1000136 updated cvss 8.1

electron: Improper handling of values in Webviews

  • Red Hat JBoss Developer Studio 11 Electron Electron
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

5.08% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 92% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

  • trustwave.com https://www.trustwave.com/Resources/SpiderLabs-Blog/CVE-2018-1000136---Electron-nodeIntegration-Bypass/ referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 8.1 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 6.8 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
GitHub 3.0 8.1 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
npm electron
>=1.7.0, <1.7.13
>=1.8.0, <1.8.4
>=2.0.0-beta.1, <2.0.0-beta.5
1.7.13
1.8.4
2.0.0-beta.5

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation

References

Sources

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