CVE-2025-55305 (GCVE-0-2025-55305)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-09-04 23:05
Modified
2025-09-05 15:44
Severity ?
6.1 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:L
CWE
  • CWE-94 - Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')
  • CWE-829 - Inclusion of Functionality from Untrusted Control Sphere
Summary
Electron is a framework for writing cross-platform desktop applications using JavaScript, HTML and CSS. In versions below 35.7.5, 36.0.0-alpha.1 through 36.8.0, 37.0.0-alpha.1 through 37.3.1 and 38.0.0-alpha.1 through 38.0.0-beta.6, ASAR Integrity Bypass via resource modification. This only impacts apps that have the embeddedAsarIntegrityValidation and onlyLoadAppFromAsar fuses enabled. Apps without these fuses enabled are not impacted. This issue is fixed in versions 35.7.5, 36.8.1, 37.3.1 and 38.0.0-beta.6.
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
electron electron Affected: < 35.7.5
Affected: >= 36.0.0-alpha.1, < 36.8.1
Affected: >= 37.0.0-alpha.1, < 37.3.1
Affected: >= 38.0.0-alpha.1, < 38.0.0-beta.6
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