HIGH 7.8

GHSA-gvcj-pfq2-wxj7

High severity vulnerability that affects electron

Details

Untrusted search path vulnerability in Atom Electron before 0.33.5 allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse Node.js module in a parent directory of a directory named on a require line.

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Affected packages

npm / electron

Introduced in: 0 Fixed in: 0.33.5

Fix npm install electron@0.33.5

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-1202 [ADVISORY]
https://github.com/electron/electron/pull/2976 [WEB]
https://github.com/electron/electron/commit/9a2e2b365d061ec10cd861391fd5b1344af7194d [WEB]
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-gvcj-pfq2-wxj7 [ADVISORY]
https://github.com/electron/electron [PACKAGE]
http://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN00324715/index.html [WEB]
http://jvndb.jvn.jp/jvndb/JVNDB-2016-000054 [WEB]