Improper Authentication Affecting electron package, versions <18.3.11
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.18% (56th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-JS-ELECTRON-2992482
- published 25 Aug 2022
- disclosed 25 Aug 2022
- credit Axel Chong
Introduced: 25 Aug 2022
CVE-2022-2860 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade electron to version 18.3.11 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 Authentication by allowing the creation of cookies that have an empty name field and whose value impersonates a cookie name prefix.
Note:
Upgrading to the fixed version will delete any previously stored cookies that meet the conditions by causing them to fail their IsCanonical() check.
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