Access Restriction Bypass Affecting electron package, versions >=20.0.0 <20.3.9>21.0.0 <21.3.4


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.2% (60th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JS-ELECTRON-3160338
  • published30 Nov 2022
  • disclosed30 Nov 2022
  • creditAxel Chong

Introduced: 30 Nov 2022

CVE-2022-4193  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-284  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade electron to version 20.3.9, 21.3.4 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 Restriction Bypass due to insufficient policy enforcement in File System API.

CVSS Scores

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