CVE-2018-1000136: Electron Electron Vulnerable To Code Execution Vulnerability

{
  "schema_version" : "1.4.0",
  "id" : "GHSA-8xwg-wv7v-4vqp",
  "modified" : "2023-09-13T19:06:52Z",
  "published" : "2018-03-26T16:41:17Z",
  "aliases" : [ "CVE-2018-1000136" ],
  "summary" : "Electron Vulnerable to Code Execution by Re-Enabling Node.js Integration",
  "details" : "A vulnerability has been discovered which allows Node.js integration to be re-enabled in some Electron applications that disable it.\n\nFor the application to be impacted by this vulnerability it must meet all of these conditions\n\n- Runs on Electron 1.7, 1.8, or a 2.0.0-beta\n- Allows execution of arbitrary remote code\n- Disables Node.js integration\n- Does not explicitly declare webviewTag: false in its webPreferences\n- Does not enable the nativeWindowOption option\n- Does not intercept new-window events and manually override event.newGuest without using the supplied options tag\n\n\n## Recommendation\n\nUpdate to `electron` version 1.7.13, 1.8.4, or 2.0.0-beta.5 or later.\n\nIf you are unable to update your Electron version can mitigate the vulnerability with the following code.\n\n```js\napp.on('web-contents-created', (event, win) => {\n  win.on('new-window', (event, newURL, frameName, disposition,\n                        options, additionalFeatures) => {\n    if (!options.webPreferences) options.webPreferences = {};\n    options.webPreferences.nodeIntegration = false;\n    options.webPreferences.nodeIntegrationInWorker = false;\n    options.webPreferences.webviewTag = false;\n    delete options.webPreferences.preload;\n  })\n})\n\n// and *IF* you don't use WebViews at all,\n// you might also want\napp.on('web-contents-created', (event, win) => {\n  win.on('will-attach-webview', (event, webPreferences, params) => {\n    event.preventDefault();\n  })\n})\n```",
  "severity" : [ {
    "type" : "CVSS_V3",
    "score" : "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"
  } ],
  "affected" : [ {
    "package" : {
      "ecosystem" : "npm",
      "name" : "electron"
    },
    "ranges" : [ {
      "type" : "ECOSYSTEM",
      "events" : [ {
        "introduced" : "1.7.0"
      }, {
        "fixed" : "1.7.13"
      } ]
    } ]
  }, {
    "package" : {
      "ecosystem" : "npm",
      "name" : "electron"
    },
    "ranges" : [ {
      "type" : "ECOSYSTEM",
      "events" : [ {
        "introduced" : "1.8.0"
      }, {
        "fixed" : "1.8.4"
      } ]
    } ]
  }, {
    "package" : {
      "ecosystem" : "npm",
      "name" : "electron"
    },
    "ranges" : [ {
      "type" : "ECOSYSTEM",
      "events" : [ {
        "introduced" : "2.0.0-beta.1"
      }, {
        "fixed" : "2.0.0-beta.5"
      } ]
    } ]
  } ],
  "references" : [ {
    "type" : "ADVISORY",
    "url" : "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-1000136"
  }, {
    "type" : "WEB",
    "url" : "https://github.com/electron/electron/pull/12271"
  }, {
    "type" : "WEB",
    "url" : "https://github.com/electron/electron/pull/12292"
  }, {
    "type" : "WEB",
    "url" : "https://github.com/electron/electron/pull/12294"
  }, {
    "type" : "WEB",
    "url" : "https://github.com/electron/electron/commit/1a48ee28276e6588dbf4e70e58d78e7bfdc57043"
  }, {
    "type" : "WEB",
    "url" : "https://electronjs.org/blog/webview-fix"
  }, {
    "type" : "PACKAGE",
    "url" : "https://github.com/electron/electron"
  }, {
    "type" : "WEB",
    "url" : "https://www.electronjs.org/blog/webview-fix"
  }, {
    "type" : "WEB",
    "url" : "https://www.npmjs.com/advisories/574"
  }, {
    "type" : "WEB",
    "url" : "https://www.trustwave.com/Resources/SpiderLabs-Blog/CVE-2018-1000136---Electron-nodeIntegration-Bypass"
  } ],
  "database_specific" : {
    "cwe_ids" : [ "CWE-20" ],
    "severity" : "HIGH",
    "github_reviewed" : true,
    "github_reviewed_at" : "2020-06-16T21:26:59Z",
    "nvd_published_at" : null
  }
}