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Signature Validation Bypass Leading to RCE In Electron-Updater

Shows that an attacker-controlled Electron update filename can break the PowerShell command used for signature validation. The resulting parse error is handled as successful validation, while the same interpolation point can also permit command injection and execution of a malicious update.

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Luca Carettoni and Lorenzo Stella
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Doyensec

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