Privilege Escalation Affecting electron package, versions <0.33.5
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.04% (6th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-JS-ELECTRON-455615
- published 30 Jul 2019
- disclosed 5 Apr 2016
- credit Unknown
Introduced: 5 Apr 2016
CVE-2016-1202 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade electron to version 0.33.5 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 Privilege Escalation. It allowed local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse Node.js module in a parent directory of a directory named on a require line.
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