CVE-2022-29257
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2022-06-13 21:25
Modified
2024-08-03 06:17
Severity ?
6.6 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
Electron's AutoUpdater module fails to validate certain nested components of the bundle
References
security-advisories@github.comhttps://github.com/electron/electron/security/advisories/GHSA-77xc-hjv8-ww97Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/electron/electron/security/advisories/GHSA-77xc-hjv8-ww97Third Party Advisory
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