{"id":"CVE-2018-1000006","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2018-1000006","generatedAt":"2026-10-29T00:59:23.327Z","title":"GitHub Electron versions 1.8.2-beta.3 and earlier, 1.7.10 and earlier, 1.6.15 and earlier has a vulnerability in the protocol handler, specifically Electron apps running on Windows 10, 7 or 2008 that register custom protocol handlers can be tricked in…","description":"GitHub Electron versions 1.8.2-beta.3 and earlier, 1.7.10 and earlier, 1.6.15 and earlier has a vulnerability in the protocol handler, specifically Electron apps running on Windows 10, 7 or 2008 that register custom protocol handlers can be tricked in arbitrary command execution if the user clicks on a specially crafted URL. 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Patch or mitigate before the next change window."},"changes":[{"kind":"epss","label":"EPSS jump","at":"2026-09-22T00:00:00.000Z","detail":{"to":0.845,"from":0.76017,"percentile":0.9969},"summary":"EPSS moved from 76.0% to 84.5% probability of exploitation in the next thirty days."}],"references":[{"url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102796","tags":["Third Party Advisory","VDB Entry"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://electronjs.org/blog/protocol-handler-fix","tags":["Mitigation","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://github.com/electron/electron/releases/tag/v1.8.2-beta.4","tags":["Patch","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://medium.com/%40Wflki/exploiting-electron-rce-in-exodus-wallet-d9e6db13c374","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/43899/","tags":["Exploit","Third Party Advisory","VDB Entry"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/44357/","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102796","tags":["Third Party Advisory","VDB Entry"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://electronjs.org/blog/protocol-handler-fix","tags":["Mitigation","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://github.com/electron/electron/releases/tag/v1.8.2-beta.4","tags":["Patch","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://medium.com/%40Wflki/exploiting-electron-rce-in-exodus-wallet-d9e6db13c374","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/43899/","tags":["Exploit","Third Party Advisory","VDB Entry"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/44357/","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-1000006","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}