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GHSA-q43m-ffwr-rpcc
No affected components available
Affected versions of electron-packager configure the generated application to disable SSL certificate verification by default.
This could allow an attacker with a privileged network position to launch a Man In The Middle (MITM) attack on the install process, intercepting the step where electron-packager downloads Electron for supported target platforms and architectures, and replacing the valid download with a tampered malicious one.
This only affects users using the electron-packager CLI. The strict-ssl option defaults to true for the node.js API.
Recommendation
- Update to version 7.0.0 or later.
- Delete the
electron-downloadcache folder, which is by default located at~/.electron.
Measures severity based on intrinsic characteristics of the vulnerability, independent of environment.
No exploitation activity has been observed at this time. Continue routine monitoring.
The exploit probability is very low. The vulnerability is unlikely to be exploited in the next 30 days.
We did not find any exploit available. Neither in GitHub repositories nor in the Exploit-Database.
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