Access Control Bypass Affecting electron package, versions <18.3.9 >=19.0.0 <19.0.12


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.28% (69th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-JS-ELECTRON-2978519
  • published 10 Aug 2022
  • disclosed 10 Aug 2022
  • credit Maurice Dauer

How to fix?

Upgrade electron to version 18.3.9, 19.0.12 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 Access Control Bypass due to insufficient policy enforcement in Cookies.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Snyk

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

6.5 medium