CVE-2018-15685

Description

Electron webPreferences vulnerability can be used to perform remote code execution

Predictions

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No vendor mitigations ingested yet for this CVE. The mitigation-content worker queues fetches as references arrive — check back in a few minutes, or see the references list below.

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