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
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Threat Intelligence
Exploit Maturity
Mature
EPSS
2.32% (90th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID npm:electron:20180822
- published 27 Aug 2018
- disclosed 22 Aug 2018
- credit Matt Austin
Introduced: 22 Aug 2018
CVE-2018-15685 Open this link in a new tabHow 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.