Arbitrary Code Execution Affecting electron package, versions >=1.7.0 <1.7.16>=1.8.0 <1.8.8>=2.0.0 <2.0.8>=3.0.0-beta6 <3.0.0-beta.7


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Proof of Concept
EPSS
9.31% (96th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDnpm:electron:20180822
  • published27 Aug 2018
  • disclosed22 Aug 2018
  • creditMatt Austin

Introduced: 22 Aug 2018

CVE-2018-15685  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-94  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade electron to version 1.7.16, 1.8.8, 2.0.8, 3.0.0-beta.7 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. Note: This vulnerability affects only users who embed any remote user content, even in a sandbox and accept user input with any XSS vulnerabilities.

CVSS Base Scores

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