Inappropriate Implementation Affecting electron package, versions <14.2.2>=15.0.0 <15.3.3


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.46% (77th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JS-ELECTRON-1924894
  • published9 Jan 2022
  • disclosed23 Nov 2021
  • creditSergei Glazunov

Introduced: 23 Nov 2021

CVE-2021-38010  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-11  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade electron to version 14.2.2, 15.3.3 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 Inappropriate Implementation via service workers in Google Chrome. This allows a remote attacker who had compromised the renderer process to bypass site isolation via a crafted HTML page.

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