GHSA-q43m-ffwr-rpccLow

SSL Validation Defaults to False in electron-packager

Published
February 18, 2019
Last Modified
January 9, 2023

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

CVE-2016-10534 →

📋 Description

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

  1. Update to version 7.0.0 or later.
  2. Delete the electron-download cache folder, which is by default located at ~/.electron.

🎯 Affected products1

  • npm/electron-packager:>= 5.2.1, < 7.0.0

🔗 References (4)