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
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.07% (33rd
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-JS-ELECTRON-3107036
- published 8 Nov 2022
- disclosed 8 Nov 2022
- credit coolcoolnoworries
Introduced: 8 Nov 2022
CVE-2022-36077 Open this link in a new tabHow 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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