Exposure of Resource to Wrong Sphere Affecting electron package, versions <15.5.6 >=16.0.0 <16.2.6 >=17.0.0 <17.2.0 >=18.0.0-beta.1 <18.0.0


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.26% (67th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-JS-ELECTRON-2869410
  • published 14 Jun 2022
  • disclosed 14 Jun 2022
  • credit TheGrandPew, msrkp

How to fix?

Upgrade electron to version 15.5.6, 16.2.6, 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 Exposure of Resource to Wrong Sphere which allows a renderer with JS execution to obtain access to a new renderer process even without nodeIntegrationInSubFrames being enabled, that allows effective access to ipcRenderer.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Snyk

Recommended
5.5 medium
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    High
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    High
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Scope (S)
    Changed
  • Confidentiality (C)
    Low
  • Integrity (I)
    Low
  • Availability (A)
    Low
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NVD

9.8 critical