Security advisory

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  "id": "c0ec48338cc8ab82f969619ffb7c5fea5f83721b00ae0485d138c2f0215a9dc6",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2017-1000424",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2017-1000424",
    "summary": "Github Electron version 1.6.4 - 1.6.11 and 1.7.0 - 1.7.5 is vulnerable to a URL Spoofing problem when opening PDFs in PDFium resulting loading arbitrary PDFs that a hacker can control.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2017-1000424",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "medium",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2017-1000424",
      "aliases": [
        "CVE-2017-1000424",
        "GHSA-6h98-cf9g-vmg2"
      ],
      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "repo": "https://github.com/electron/electron",
              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "46aed5ff6f4f2e27222dc197f67c48106cf817c8"
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                {
                  "last_affected": "0428632a4e5dfa65e7ffbe39ff208069f0b9cdc4"
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                {
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                },
                {
                  "last_affected": "5b9d31d3ff609b59210c896b4d2e3553adf1eb7b"
                }
              ],
              "database_specific": {
                "extracted_events": [
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:atom:electron:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "1.6.4"
                      },
                      {
                        "last_affected": "1.6.11"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_RANGE"
                  },
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:atom:electron:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "1.7.0"
                      },
                      {
                        "last_affected": "1.7.5"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_RANGE"
                  }
                ]
              }
            }
          ],
          "versions": [
            "v1.7.5",
            "v1.6.11",
            "v1.7.4",
            "v1.7.3",
            "v1.7.2",
            "v1.6.10",
            "v1.7.1",
            "v1.6.9",
            "v1.7.0",
            "v1.6.8",
            "v1.6.7",
            "v1.6.6",
            "v1.6.5",
            "v1.6.4"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-1000424.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-20T10:48:00.468783263Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://github.com/electron/electron/pull/10008",
        "https://github.com/electron/electron/pull/10008/files"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {}
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2017-1000424",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 379927,
  "published_at": "2018-01-02T20:29:00.283+00:00"
}