CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2016-10534

Improper Certificate Validation

Published: May 31, 2018 | Modified: Oct 09, 2019
CVSS 3.x
5.9
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
CVSS 2.x
4.3 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

electron-packager is a command line tool that packages Electron source code into .app and .exe packages. along with Electron. The --strict-ssl command line option in electron-packager >= 5.2.1 <= 6.0.0 || >=6.0.0 <= 6.0.2 defaults to false if not explicitly set to true. This could allow an attacker to perform a man in the middle attack.

Weakness

The product does not validate, or incorrectly validates, a certificate.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Electron-packager Electron-packager_project 5.2.1 (including) 6.0.2 (including)

Potential Mitigations

References