Improper Input Validation Affecting electron package, versions <18.3.8>=19.0.0 <19.0.13


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.15% (53rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JS-ELECTRON-2977512
  • published10 Aug 2022
  • disclosed10 Aug 2022
  • creditasnine

Introduced: 10 Aug 2022

CVE-2022-2618  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-20  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade electron to version 18.3.8, 19.0.13 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. in Internals, due to not treating % as a special character in pathname resolution.

NOTE: This vulnerability is only exploitable when running on Windows.

CVSS Scores

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