CVE-2016-10534: Electron-Packager Project Electron-Packager

Medium severity, CVSS 5.9. EPSS: 0.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Electron-Packager Project Electron-Packager: from 5.2.1, up to and including 6.0.2

Published 2018-05-31. Last modified 2026-06-17.