Insecure Defaults Affecting electron package, versions >=17.0.0-alpha.1 <17.4.5


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.13% (51st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JS-ELECTRON-2833549
  • published18 May 2022
  • disclosed18 May 2022
  • creditAlesandro Ortiz

Introduced: 18 May 2022

CVE-2022-1637  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-453  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade electron to version 17.4.5 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 Insecure Defaults when using GetOriginalOpener to get opener's origin on FrameTree initialization. GetOriginalOpener was used to get the opener, but that function will actually return the main frame of the opener. This means when the FrameTree is opened by a non-main frame, it might inherit the wrong origin.

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