Improper Input Validation Affecting electron package, versions <15.5.0 >=16.0.0 <16.2.0 >17.0.0 <17.2.0 >=18.0.0-beta.1 <18.0.0
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.1% (42nd
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-JS-ELECTRON-2869408
- published 14 Jun 2022
- disclosed 14 Jun 2022
- credit Unknown
Introduced: 14 Jun 2022
CVE-2022-29257 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade electron to version 15.5.0, 16.2.0, 17.2.0, 18.0.0 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 Improper Input Validation which allows attackers who have control over a given app's update server or update storage to serve maliciously crafted update packages that pass the code signing validation check but contain malicious code in some components.
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