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Sandbox Bypass Affecting electron package, versions <12.2.2 >=13.0.0 <13.5.2 >=14.0.0 <14.2.0

0.0
medium

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity High

    Threat Intelligence

    Exploit Maturity Proof of concept
    EPSS 0.23% (61st percentile)
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NVD
7.4 high

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-JS-ELECTRON-1731315
  • published 2 Nov 2021
  • disclosed 13 Oct 2021
  • credit Yonghwi Jin
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Introduced: 13 Oct 2021

CVE-2021-37980 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-265 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Upgrade electron to version 12.2.2, 13.5.2, 14.2.0 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 Sandbox Bypass via chromium, due to a child process's delayed integrity level not being set correctly.