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Arbitrary Code Execution Affecting electron package, versions <5.0.0-beta.1

Severity

 Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-JS-ELECTRON-483056
  • published 11 Nov 2019
  • disclosed 7 Jan 2019
  • credit Unknown
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Introduced: 7 Jan 2019

CVE NOT AVAILABLE CWE-453 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Upgrade electron to version 5.0.0-beta.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 Arbitrary Code Execution due to Node being enabled in a webview because the default values of nodeIntegration and webviewTag were set to true when they where undefined by a user. The fix allows users to prevent Node and webview being enabled, when undefined, by setting the default values of nodeIntegration and webviewTag to false.

CVSS Scores

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Snyk

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