CVE-2017-1000424: Atom Electron

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Atom Electron: from 1.6.4, up to and including 1.6.11; from 1.7.0, up to and including 1.7.5

Published 2018-01-02. Last modified 2026-06-17.