<p>Upgrade <code>electron</code> to version 18.3.8, 19.0.13 or higher.</p>

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

Snyk CVSS

Attack Complexity Low

Threat Intelligence

EPSS 0.15% (51^st percentile)

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Snyk ID SNYK-JS-ELECTRON-2977512
published 10 Aug 2022
disclosed 10 Aug 2022
credit asnine

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Introduced: 10 Aug 2022

CVE-2022-2618 Open this link in a new tab CWE-20 Open this link 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.