CVE-2017-12581
high
CVSS v3
8.1
CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
8.1
Description
Electron vulnerable to remote command execution
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
88%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
Package impact
| Ecosystem | Package | Vulnerable | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| npm | electron | <1.6.8 | 1.6.8 |
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| electron | electron | {"endIncluding":"1.6.7"} | |
References
- https://blog.doyensec.com/2017/08/03/electron-framework-security.html
- https://doyensec.com/resources/us-17-Carettoni-Electronegativity-A-Study-Of-Electron-Security.pdf
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-12581
- https://github.com/electron/electron/commit/05b6d91bf4c1e0ee65eeef70cd5d1bd1df125644
- https://github.com/electron/electron
CWEs
CWE-78
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.