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ghsa-gvcj-pfq2-wxj7

Vulnerability from github

Published

2017-10-24 18:33

Modified

2021-09-13 12:46

Severity ?

7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Summary

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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  "modified": "2021-09-13T12:46:47Z",
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}

CVE-2016-1202 (GCVE-0-2016-1202)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2016-04-25 18:00

Modified

2024-08-05 22:48

Severity ?

CWE

n/a

Summary

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.

References

URL

Tags

	https://github.com/electron/electron/commit/9a2e2b365d061ec10cd861391fd5b1344af7194d	x_refsource_CONFIRM
	http://jvndb.jvn.jp/jvndb/JVNDB-2016-000054	third-party-advisory, x_refsource_JVNDB
	https://github.com/electron/electron/pull/2976	x_refsource_CONFIRM
	http://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN00324715/index.html	third-party-advisory, x_refsource_JVN

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	n/a	n/a	Version: n/a

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