{"answers":{"affected":"4 open source packages ship an affected version, including electron. It affects 1 product.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2017-16151 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Upgrade electron to a fixed version for your release line: 1.6.14 or 1.7.8.","what":"CVE-2017-16151 is a critical code injection vulnerability in Electronjs Electron, published on 7 Jun 2018. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2017-16151 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2017-16151 is a critical code injection vulnerability in Electronjs Electron, published on 7 Jun 2018. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2017-16151 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected packages and fixed versions:\n- electron (npm): affected all versions; fixed in 1.6.14\n- electron (npm): affected all versions; fixed in 1.6.14\n- electron (npm): affected from 1.7.0; fixed in 1.7.8\n- electron (npm): affected from 1.7.0; fixed in 1.7.8\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2017-16151/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2017-16151/index.md)","id":"CVE-2017-16151","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2017-16151/index.md","name":"CVE-2017-16151","record":{"aliases":["GHSA-4w88-rjj3-x7wp"],"analysis":{"component_type":"desktop_application","fix_type":"upgrade","impacts":["code_execution"],"network_reachable":"yes","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"Electron framework","requires_auth":"none","summary":"Remote attackers can execute arbitrary code in Electron applications by exploiting a Chromium vulnerability when accessing remote content.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"code_injection"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"hackerone","cpe":[{"product":"electron","vendor":"electronjs"}],"cvss":{"score":9.8,"severity":"critical","source":"nvd","vector":"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","version":"3.0"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-94","name":"Improper Control of Generation of Code"}],"description":"Based on details posted by the ElectronJS team; A remote code execution vulnerability has been discovered in Google Chromium that affects all recent versions of Electron. Any Electron app that accesses remote content is vulnerable to this exploit, regardless of whether the [sandbox option](https://electron.atom.io/docs/api/sandbox-option) is enabled.","ecosystems":["npm"],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"none_known"},"has_fix":true,"headline":"Chromium Remote Code Execution in electron","id":"CVE-2017-16151","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":"npm","product":"electronjs:electron","products":["electronjs:electron"],"type":"code_injection","year":"2017"},"n_packages":4,"n_references":2,"next":{"headline":"Directory Traversal in static-html-server","id":"CVE-2017-16152"},"packages":[{"ecosystem":"npm","fixed":["1.6.14"],"introduced":["0"],"last_affected":[],"package":"electron","purl":null,"source":"GHSA-4w88-rjj3-x7wp"},{"ecosystem":"npm","fixed":["1.6.14"],"introduced":["0"],"last_affected":[],"package":"electron","purl":"pkg:npm/electron","source":"GHSA-4w88-rjj3-x7wp"},{"ecosystem":"npm","fixed":["1.7.8"],"introduced":["1.7.0"],"last_affected":[],"package":"electron","purl":null,"source":"GHSA-4w88-rjj3-x7wp"},{"ecosystem":"npm","fixed":["1.7.8"],"introduced":["1.7.0"],"last_affected":[],"package":"electron","purl":"pkg:npm/electron","source":"GHSA-4w88-rjj3-x7wp"}],"prev":{"headline":"Directory Traversal in wangguojing123","id":"CVE-2017-16150"},"products":["electron node module"],"published":"2018-06-07","related":[{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"Electron protocol handler browser vulnerable to Command Injection","id":"CVE-2018-1000118","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2018-03-07"},{"cvss_score":8.4,"headline":"Electron: Context Isolation bypass via contextBridge VideoFrame transfer","id":"CVE-2026-34780","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2026-04-04"},{"cvss_score":8.3,"headline":"Electron: \u003cwebview\u003e can enable Node.js integration in Web Workers despite embedder restrictions","id":"CVE-2026-102676","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2026-09-29"},{"cvss_score":8.2,"headline":"Electron drops inherited HTML sandbox restrictions for popups opened through OpenURLFromTab","id":"CVE-2026-102673","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2026-09-29"},{"cvss_score":8.2,"headline":"Electron: Windows opened from a sandboxed top-level document do not inherit its sandbox restrictions","id":"CVE-2026-102674","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2026-09-29"},{"cvss_score":8.1,"headline":"Electron: Use-after-free in offscreen child window paint callback","id":"CVE-2026-34774","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2026-04-03"}],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CC BY 4.0","name":"GitHub Advisory Database","prefix":"GHSA"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"US public information, NVD API terms","name":"NVD"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CWE Terms of Use","name":"CWE (MITRE)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":null,"exploitation":null,"technical_impact":null},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2024-09-16","vendors":["HackerOne"]},"summary":"Remote attackers can execute arbitrary code in Electron applications by exploiting a Chromium vulnerability when accessing remote content.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2017-16151/"}