CVE-2016-1202
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2016-04-25 18:00
Modified
2024-08-05 22:48
Severity ?
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
vultures@jpcert.or.jphttp://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN00324715/index.htmlVendor Advisory
vultures@jpcert.or.jphttp://jvndb.jvn.jp/jvndb/JVNDB-2016-000054Vendor Advisory
vultures@jpcert.or.jphttps://github.com/electron/electron/commit/9a2e2b365d061ec10cd861391fd5b1344af7194d
vultures@jpcert.or.jphttps://github.com/electron/electron/pull/2976
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