Improper Access Control Affecting electron package, versions >=14.0.0 <14.1.1>=13.0.0 <13.5.2<12.2.2


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.42% (75th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JS-ELECTRON-1910991
  • published4 Nov 2021
  • disclosed4 Nov 2021
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 4 Nov 2021

CVE-2021-37967  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-284  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade electron to version 14.1.1, 13.5.2, 12.2.2 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 Improper Access Control. Inappropriate implementation in Background Fetch API in Google Chrome prior to 94.0.4606.54 allowed a remote attacker who had compromised the renderer process to leak cross-origin data via a crafted HTML page.

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