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CVE-2021-28134

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 5.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2021-03-11 · updated 2026-06-17

Description

Clipper before 1.0.5 allows remote command execution. A remote attacker may send a crafted IPC message to the exposed vulnerable ipcRenderer IPC interface, which invokes the dangerous openExternal API.

Affected products

• Clipper Project Clipper: before 1.0.5 — fixed in 1.0.5

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Clipper Project Clipper 1.0.5. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://github.com/AkashRajpurohit/clipper/issues/13
• https://github.com/AkashRajpurohit/clipper/pull/14
• https://github.com/AkashRajpurohit/clipper/pull/14/commits/28f1492a12234cf1e6af85c78bf22ee2f5090d19
• https://github.com/AkashRajpurohit/clipper/releases/tag/v1.0.5
• https://github.com/AkashRajpurohit/clipper/issues/13
• https://github.com/AkashRajpurohit/clipper/pull/14
• https://github.com/AkashRajpurohit/clipper/pull/14/commits/28f1492a12234cf1e6af85c78bf22ee2f5090d19
• https://github.com/AkashRajpurohit/clipper/releases/tag/v1.0.5

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