Bug 1539916 (CVE-2018-6353)

Summary:	CVE-2018-6353 electrum: Python console not sandboxed in Electrum
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Pedro Sampaio <psampaio>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Version:	unspecified	CC:	hegjon
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Description Pedro Sampaio 2018-01-29 20:40:37 UTC

The Python console in Electrum through 2.9.4 and 3.x through 3.0.5 supports arbitrary Python code without considering (1) social-engineering attacks in which a user pastes code that they do not understand and (2) code pasted by a physically proximate attacker at an unattended workstation, which makes it easier for attackers to steal Bitcoin via hook code that runs at a later time when the wallet password has been entered, a different vulnerability than CVE-2018-1000022.

Upstream bug:

https://github.com/spesmilo/electrum/issues/3678

Upstream bug:

https://github.com/spesmilo/electrum/pull/3700

Comment 1 Pedro Sampaio 2018-01-29 20:40:56 UTC

Created electrum tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1539917]

Comment 2 Jonny Heggheim 2018-03-10 19:22:02 UTC

Electrum 3.0.6 that have a fix for this issue have been pushed to stable.