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

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.2% (59th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-JS-ELECTRON-3160338
  • published 30 Nov 2022
  • disclosed 30 Nov 2022
  • credit Axel Chong

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

version 3.1
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Snyk

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

8.8 high