Arbitrary Code Execution Affecting electron package, versions <1.6.14>=1.7.0 <1.7.8>=1.8.0 <1.8.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.6% (88th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDnpm:electron:20170927
  • published28 Sept 2017
  • disclosed26 Sept 2017
  • creditElectron Team

Introduced: 26 Sep 2017

CVE-2017-16151  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-94  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade electron to version 1.6.14, 1.7.8, 1.8.1 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. An arbitrary code execution vulnerability was discovered in Google Chromium, affecting many versions of Electron. Any Electron app that accesses remote content is vulnerable to this exploit, regardless of whether the sandbox option is enabled.

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