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GSD-2018-15685

Vulnerability from gsd - Updated: 2023-12-13 01:22

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GitHub Electron 1.7.15, 1.8.7, 2.0.7, and 3.0.0-beta.6, in certain scenarios involving IFRAME elements and "nativeWindowOpen: true" or "sandbox: true" options, is affected by a WebPreferences vulnerability that can be leveraged to perform remote code execution.

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CVE-2018-15685

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CVE-2018-15685

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CVE-2018-15685 (GCVE-0-2018-15685)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2018-08-23 05:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 10:01

Summary

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

Assigner

mitre mitre root

References

2 references

URL	Tags
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/45272/	exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DB
https://electronjs.org/blog/web-preferences-fix	x_refsource_MISC

Date Public

2018-08-23 00:00

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