CVE-2017-16151: Electronjs Electron

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 2.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Based on details posted by the ElectronJS team; A remote code execution vulnerability has been discovered in Google Chromium that affects all recent versions of Electron. Any Electron app that accesses remote content is vulnerable to this exploit, regardless of whether the [sandbox option](https://electron.atom.io/docs/api/sandbox-option) is enabled.

Affected products

• Electronjs Electron: before 1.7.8 (fixed in 1.7.8)

Published 2018-06-07. Last modified 2026-06-17.