Improper Input Validation Affecting electron package, versions <18.3.8 >=19.0.0 <19.0.13
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.15% (52nd
percentile)
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- published 10 Aug 2022
- disclosed 10 Aug 2022
- credit asnine
Introduced: 10 Aug 2022
CVE-2022-2618 Open this link in a new tabHow 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.
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