CVE-2018-15685

high · 8.1

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.

8.1

CVSS

10.4%

EPSS (exploit prob.)

96th

EPSS percentile

2018-08-23

Published

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weaknesses

CWE-1188

Affected products

Vendor	Product	Affected versions
electronjs	electron	1.7.15
electronjs	electron	1.8.7
electronjs	electron	2.0.7
electronjs	electron	3.0.0

Check a specific version with /api/v1/cve/match.

References

https://electronjs.org/blog/web-preferences-fix
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/45272/
https://electronjs.org/blog/web-preferences-fix
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/45272/

Query this programmatically:

curl https://evil-db.io/api/v1/cve/CVE-2018-15685