Arbitrary Code Injection Affecting electron package, versions <35.7.5>=36.0.0-alpha.1 <36.8.1>=37.0.0-alpha.1 <37.3.1>=38.0.0-alpha.1 <38.0.0-beta.6
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- published4 Sept 2025
- disclosed3 Sept 2025
- creditDarius Houle
Introduced: 3 Sep 2025
NewCVE-2025-55305 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
Upgrade electron to version 35.7.5, 36.8.1, 37.3.1, 38.0.0-beta.6 or higher.
Overview
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 Arbitrary Code Injection via modification of the resources folder when the embeddedAsarIntegrityValidation and onlyLoadAppFromAsar fuses are enabled. An attacker can execute unauthorized code by altering files within the application directory, bypassing ASAR integrity checks.
Note: This is only exploitable if the application is launched from a filesystem to which the attacker has write access.