Electron is vulnerable to Code Injection via resource modification
13Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 6.1epss 0.3%
exploitation probability
0.3%top 81% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
Electron is a framework for writing cross-platform desktop applications using JavaScript, HTML and CSS. In versions below 35.7.5, 36.0.0-alpha.1 through 36.8.0, 37.0.0-alpha.1 through 37.3.1 and 38.0.0-alpha.1 through 38.0.0-beta.6, ASAR Integrity Bypass via resource modification. This only impacts apps that have the embeddedAsarIntegrityValidation and onlyLoadAppFromAsar fuses enabled. Apps without these fuses enabled are not impacted. This issue is fixed in versions 35.7.5, 36.8.1, 37.3.1 and 38.0.0-beta.6.
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:L
Affected products
electron · electronReferences
https://github.com/electron/electron/commit/23a02934510fcf951428e14573d9b2d2a3c4f28bhttps://github.com/electron/electron/commit/2e5a0b7220ebf955c6785cc5adb2e2b1cf77dac1https://github.com/electron/electron/commit/3f92511cdecc39f46b0e86cce40a0c691e301c9dhttps://github.com/electron/electron/commit/fdf29ce83870109d403f5c23ae529dbd0e8f4feehttps://github.com/electron/electron/pull/48101https://github.com/electron/electron/pull/48102https://github.com/electron/electron/pull/48103https://github.com/electron/electron/pull/48104https://github.com/electron/electron/security/advisories/GHSA-vmqv-hx8q-j7mg