CVE-2018-1000006

62Vexday Risk Score

Patch soon. It has a working public exploit.

ssvc Attendepss 84%

from disclosure to weapon1 days

Published on NVDJan 24

1st PoC+1d

metasploit+1d

exploitation probability

84%top 1% of all CVEs

observed exploitation

nono source reports it

5 public exploit(s)

GitHub Electron versions 1.8.2-beta.3 and earlier, 1.7.10 and earlier, 1.6.15 and earlier has a vulnerability in the protocol handler, specifically Electron apps running on Windows 10, 7 or 2008 that register custom protocol handlers can be tricked in arbitrary command execution if the user clicks on a specially crafted URL. This has been fixed in versions 1.8.2-beta.4, 1.7.11, and 1.6.16.

Affected products

n/a · n/a

public PoCs found — 5✓ VexDay Proof

exploitdb✓ VexDay Proofwww.exploit-db.com/exploits/44357 exploitdbwww.exploit-db.com/exploits/43899unverified githubgithub.com/CHYbeta/CVE-2018-1000006-DEMO★ 39 cve_referencewww.exploit-db.com/exploits/43899/unverified cve_referencewww.exploit-db.com/exploits/44357/unverified

⚠ Public resources, to assess the exposure of systems you control or are authorized to test. Test only with authorization.

References

https://electronjs.org/blog/protocol-handler-fix https://github.com/electron/electron/releases/tag/v1.8.2-beta.4 https://medium.com/%40Wflki/exploiting-electron-rce-in-exodus-wallet-d9e6db13c374 https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/43899/https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/44357/http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102796