SSL Validation Defaults to False in electron-packager

Also known as GHSA-q43m-ffwr-rpcc

Published 8 y ago 2018-05-31 · modified 4 mo ago 2026-06-17 · JSON

CVSS

5.9

v3.0 · NVD

CISA KEV

not known exploited

EPSS

0.9%

percentile 61%

Public exploits

none known

electron-packager is a command line tool that packages Electron source code into `.app` and `.exe` packages. along with Electron. The `--strict-ssl` command line option in electron-packager >= 5.2.1 <= 6.0.0 || >=6.0.0 <= 6.0.2 defaults to false if not explicitly set to true. This could allow an attacker to perform a man in the middle attack.

Exploit prediction (EPSS)

0.94% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 61% of all scored CVEs.

CVSS scores

Assigned by	Version	Score	Vector
NVD	3.0	5.9	`CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N`
NVD	2.0	4.3	`AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N`

Affected packages

Ecosystem	Package	Affected	Fixed in
npm	`electron-packager`	>=5.2.1, <7.0.0	7.0.0

Affected products

HackerOne electron-packager node module

Classification

Weakness

CWE-295 Improper Certificate Validation

References

github.com /electron-userland/electron-packager/issues/333 · x_refsource_MISC, x_transferred
nodesecurity.io /advisories/104 · x_refsource_MISC, x_transferred
nvd.nist.gov /vuln/detail/CVE-2016-10534 · advisory
github.com /advisories/GHSA-q43m-ffwr-rpcc · advisory
npmjs.com /advisories/104 · web

Sources

CVE List: CVE-2016-10534
GitHub Advisory: GHSA-q43m-ffwr-rpcc
NVD: CVE-2016-10534

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Summary