CVE-2017-1000424: Authentication Bypass by Spoofing

January 2, 2018 (updated October 3, 2019)

Github Electron is vulnerable to a URL Spoofing problem when opening PDFs in PDFium resulting loading arbitrary PDFs that a hacker can control.

References

nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-1000424

Code Behaviors & Features

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