How severe is CVE-2017-12581?

This vulnerability has a severity rating of HIGH with a CVSS score of 8.1 out of 10.

What type of vulnerability is CVE-2017-12581?

This is classified as CWE-78, which is a common weakness in software security.

CVE-2017-12581 - HIGH Severity | CVSS 8.1

Vulnerability Description

GitHub Electron before 1.6.8 allows remote command execution because of a nodeIntegration bypass vulnerability. This also affects all applications that bundle Electron code equivalent to 1.6.8 or earlier. Bypassing the Same Origin Policy (SOP) is a precondition; however, recent Electron versions do not have strict SOP enforcement. Combining an SOP bypass with a privileged URL internally used by Electron, it was possible to execute native Node.js primitives in order to run OS commands on the user's host. Specifically, a chrome-devtools://devtools/bundled/inspector.html window could be used to eval a Node.js child_process.execFile API call.

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