Sandbox Bypass Affecting org.webjars.npm:electron package, versions [,12.2.2)[13.0.0,13.5.2)[14.0.0,14.2.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Proof of concept
EPSS
0.28% (69th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JAVA-ORGWEBJARSNPM-1731316
  • published2 Nov 2021
  • disclosed13 Oct 2021
  • creditYonghwi Jin

Introduced: 13 Oct 2021

CVE-2021-37980  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-265  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade org.webjars.npm:electron to version 12.2.2, 13.5.2, 14.2.0 or higher.

Overview

org.webjars.npm:electron is a framework which lets you write cross-platform desktop applications using JavaScript, HTML and CSS.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Sandbox Bypass via chromium, due to a child process's delayed integrity level not being set correctly.

CVSS Scores

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