Information Exposure Affecting electron package, versions <18.3.7>=19.0.0-beta.1 <19.0.11>=20.0.0-beta.1 <20.0.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.07% (34th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JS-ELECTRON-3107036
  • published8 Nov 2022
  • disclosed8 Nov 2022
  • creditcoolcoolnoworries

Introduced: 8 Nov 2022

CVE-2022-36077  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-522  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade electron to version 18.3.7, 19.0.11, 20.0.1 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 Information Exposure in that it reveals hashed credentials when the target of a redirect is an SMB URL, such as one using the file:// scheme.

NOTE: This vulnerability is only exploitable on Windows.

Workaround

This vulnerability can be worked around by preventing redirects to file:// URLs in the WebContents.on('will-redirect') event.

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