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CVE-2016-10534

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.9 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2018-05-31 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-295

Description

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

• HackerOne electron-packager node module: from 5.2.1 through 6.0.2

References

• https://github.com/electron-userland/electron-packager/issues/333
• https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/104
• https://github.com/electron-userland/electron-packager/issues/333
• https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/104

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