CVE-2016-1202 Affecting electron/electron package, versions [,0.33.5)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (6th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-ELECTRONELECTRON-2370573
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed25 Apr 2016
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 25 Apr 2016

CVE-2016-1202  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade electron/electron to version 0.33.5 or higher.

Overview

Untrusted search path vulnerability in Atom Electron before 0.33.5 allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse Node.js module in a parent directory of a directory named on a require line.

CVSS Scores

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