Protection Mechanism Failure Affecting electron package, versions <17.4.9>=18.0.0 <18.3.6>=19.0.0 <19.0.7


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.54% (79th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JS-ELECTRON-2934721
  • published23 Jun 2022
  • disclosed23 Jun 2022
  • creditAbdelhamid Naceri

Introduced: 23 Jun 2022

CVE-2022-2162  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-693  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade electron to version 17.4.9, 18.3.6, 19.0.7 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 Protection Mechanism Failure in File System API.

CVSS Scores

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