Exposure of Resource to Wrong Sphere Affecting org.webjars.npm:electron package, versions [,15.5.6) [16.0.0,16.2.6) [17.0.0,17.2.0) [18.0.0-beta.1,18.0.0)


0.0
medium

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity High
    Privileges Required High
    Scope Changed

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS 0.26% (66th percentile)
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NVD
9.8 critical

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-JAVA-ORGWEBJARSNPM-2869412
  • published 14 Jun 2022
  • disclosed 14 Jun 2022
  • credit TheGrandPew, msrkp

How to fix?

Upgrade org.webjars.npm:electron to version 15.5.6, 16.2.6, 17.2.0, 18.0.0 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 Exposure of Resource to Wrong Sphere which allows a renderer with JS execution to obtain access to a new renderer process even without nodeIntegrationInSubFrames being enabled, that allows effective access to ipcRenderer.