Sandbox Bypass Affecting 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
0.27% (67th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JS-ELECTRON-1731315
  • 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 electron to version 12.2.2, 13.5.2, 14.2.0 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 Sandbox Bypass via chromium, due to a child process's delayed integrity level not being set correctly.

CVSS Scores

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