Vulnerability · Published Aug 29, 2020 · Assigned by mitre
CVE-2020-25019
High 7.5
In plain English
A high-severity security flaw in the affected software. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 1.0% (higher than 64% of all known vulnerabilities).
Severity (CVSS NVD)7.5High
Exploit odds (30 days)1.0%top 36.4% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known
Official description
jitsi-meet-electron (aka Jitsi Meet Electron) before 2.3.0 calls the Electron shell.openExternal function without verifying that the URL is for an http or https resource, in some circumstances.
Affected products (as reported)
References
- https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet-electron/commit/ca1eb702507fdc4400fe21c905a9f85702f92a14
- https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet-electron/releases/tag/v2.3.0
- https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/225799
- https://github.com/jitsi/security-advisories/blob/master/advisories/JSA-2020-0001.md
- https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet-electron/security/advisories/GHSA-x4h8-fhrp-pm3p