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GHSA-Q43M-FFWR-RPCC

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2019-02-18 23:58 – Updated: 2021-01-08 18:18

Summary

SSL Validation Defaults to False in electron-packager

Details

Affected versions of electron-packager configure the generated application to disable SSL certificate verification by default.

This could allow an attacker with a privileged network position to launch a Man In The Middle (MITM) attack on the install process, intercepting the step where electron-packager downloads Electron for supported target platforms and architectures, and replacing the valid download with a tampered malicious one.

This only affects users using the electron-packager CLI. The strict-ssl option defaults to true for the node.js API.

Recommendation

Update to version 7.0.0 or later.
Delete the electron-download cache folder, which is by default located at ~/.electron.

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        "name": "electron-packager"
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          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "5.2.1"
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              "fixed": "7.0.0"
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    "severity": "LOW"
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  "details": "Affected versions of `electron-packager` configure the generated application to disable SSL certificate verification by default. \n\nThis could allow an attacker with a privileged network position to launch a Man In The Middle (MITM) attack on the install process, intercepting the step where electron-packager downloads Electron for supported target platforms and architectures, and replacing the valid download with a tampered malicious one.\n\nThis only affects users using the electron-packager CLI. The strict-ssl option defaults to true for the node.js API.\n\n\n## Recommendation\n\n1. Update to version 7.0.0 or later.\n2. Delete the `electron-download` cache folder, which is by default located at `~/.electron`.",
  "id": "GHSA-q43m-ffwr-rpcc",
  "modified": "2021-01-08T18:18:07Z",
  "published": "2019-02-18T23:58:24Z",
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      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-10534"
    },
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      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/electron-userland/electron-packager/issues/333"
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    },
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  "schema_version": "1.4.0",
  "severity": [],
  "summary": "SSL Validation Defaults to False in electron-packager"
}

CVE-2016-10534 (GCVE-0-2016-10534)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2018-05-31 20:00 – Updated: 2024-09-17 02:37

Summary

electron-packager is a command line tool that packages Electron source code into `.app` and `.exe` packages. along with Electron. The `--strict-ssl` command line option in electron-packager >= 5.2.1 <= 6.0.0 || >=6.0.0 <= 6.0.2 defaults to false if not explicitly set to true. This could allow an attacker to perform a man in the middle attack.

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

CWE-295 - Improper Certificate Validation (CWE-295)

Assigner

hackerone mitre root Scorecard

References

2 references

URL	Tags
https://github.com/electron-userland/electron-pac…	x_refsource_MISC
https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/104	x_refsource_MISC

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
HackerOne	electron-packager node module	Affected: >= 5.2.1 <= 6.0.0 \|\| >=6.0.0 <= 6.0.2

Date Public

2018-04-26 00:00

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