Description
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.
Remediation
References
https://github.com/electron/electron/pull/10008
https://github.com/electron/electron/pull/10008/files
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