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CVE-2016-10534

UNKNOWN
Published 2018-05-31T20:00:00Z
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Description

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.

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No exploits available for this CVE.

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Affected Products

HackerOne

electron-packager node module

Affected Versions:

>= 5.2.1 <= 6.0.0 || >=6.0.0 <= 6.0.2

GitHub Security Advisories

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SSL Validation Defaults to False in electron-packager

GHSA-q43m-ffwr-rpcc

Advisory 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 1. Update to version 7.0.0 or later. 2. Delete the `electron-download` cache folder, which is by default located at `~/.electron`.

Affected Packages

npm electron-packager
ECOSYSTEM: ≥5.2.1 <7.0.0

CVSS Scoring

CVSS Score

2.5

References

ADVISORY https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-10534
WEB https://github.com/electron-userland/electron-packager/issues/333
ADVISORY https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-q43m-ffwr-rpcc
WEB https://www.npmjs.com/advisories/104

Advisory provided by GitHub Security Advisory Database. Published: February 18, 2019, Modified: January 8, 2021

References

https://github.com/electron-userland/electron-packager/issues/333
https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/104
Published: 2018-05-31T20:00:00Z
Last Modified: 2024-09-17T02:37:40.090Z
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