GHSA-hv9c-qwqg-qj3v: electron (CVE-2018-15685)

Electron webPreferences vulnerability can be used to perform remote code execution

CVSS 8.1 HighCriticalEPSS 0.10 · 95th percentile

Critical, because:

CVSS score 8.1 (7.0 or more) and EPSS 0.10 (0.1 or more): a high score and a real chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Published by the GitHub Advisory Database at 23 Aug 2018, 19:12 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known.

Package	Ecosystem	Affected	Fixed in
electron	npm	>=1.7.0, <1.7.16 \|\| >=1.8.0, <1.8.8 \|\| >=2.0.0, <2.0.8 \|\| >=3.0.0-beta.1, <3.0.0-beta.7	1.7.16, 1.8.8, 2.0.8, 3.0.0-beta.7

Identifiers

GHSA-hv9c-qwqg-qj3v · CVE-2018-15685

Weakness (CWE)

CWE-1188

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

Score	Rating	CVSS	Vector	Source
8.1	High	3.0	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	GitHub Advisory Database

CISA KEV Not listed.
EPSS 0.10, the 95th percentile, on 8 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

This record came from the full history of the GitHub Advisory Database, published 23 Aug 2018. New records show when each source confirmed them.

Sources

Facts on this page come from the GitHub Advisory Database (CC-BY 4.0), OSV and the other sources listed, as published. We don’t reproduce full advisory descriptions, which can contain exploit code.