CVE-2018-15685
unknown
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
1.0
Description
Electron webPreferences vulnerability can be used to perform remote code execution
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
30%
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.
Exploits
Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.
Exploit-DB
Electron WebPreferences - Remote Code Execution
Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-15685
- https://github.com/electron/electron/commit/519a02d8d4d28e8a467acb40fb26172a80c9454f
- https://github.com/electron/electron/commit/80221e52d93a96ea704cb6748ead669c55cff504
- https://github.com/electron/electron/commit/bab968ca776be28791e4dddfd50c86bd5fae62fa
- https://github.com/electron/electron/commit/ef0a6d9a1c96efc4657c6dd3a6624eba969f095b
- https://electronjs.org/blog/web-preferences-fix
- https://github.com/electron/electron
- https://www.contrastsecurity.com/security-influencers/cve-2018-15685
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/45272
- https://www.npmjs.com/advisories/732
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.