High
Security advisory
In Eclipse Theia 0.3.9 to 1.8.1, the "mini-browser" extension allows a user to preview HTML files in an iframe inside the IDE. But with the way it is made it is possible for a previewed HTML file to trigger an RCE. This exploit only happens if a user previews a malicious file..
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2021-34435
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 05:21 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
In Eclipse Theia 0.3.9 to 1.8.1, the "mini-browser" extension allows a user to preview HTML files in an iframe inside the IDE. But with the way it is made it is possible for a previewed HTML file to trigger an RCE. This exploit only happens if a user previews a malicious file..
osv:CVE-2021-34435
Complete source record
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