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Arbitrary Code Injection Affecting electron package, versions <1.4.15

Severity

 Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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  • Snyk ID npm:electron:20170105
  • published 9 Oct 2017
  • disclosed 4 Jan 2017
  • credit Unknown
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Introduced: 4 Jan 2017

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How to fix?

Upgrade electron to version 1.4.15 or higher.

Overview

electron is a framework for creating native applications with web technologies like JavaScript, HTML, and CSS. It takes care of the hard parts so you can focus on the core of your application.

Affected versions of the package are vulnerable to Arbitrary Code Injection. A malicious user can create a specially crafted site which will be loaded in the preload script and would run in the main JavaScript context.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Snyk

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