Arbitrary Code Injection Affecting electron package, versions <1.4.15


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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  • Snyk IDnpm:electron:20170105
  • published9 Oct 2017
  • disclosed4 Jan 2017
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 4 Jan 2017

CVE NOT AVAILABLE CWE-284  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade electron to version 1.4.15 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 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

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