jvndb - jvndb-2016-000054

jvndb-2016-000054

Vulnerability from jvndb

Published

2016-04-22 13:49

Modified

2016-06-01 15:56

Severity ?

5.3 (Medium) - cvssV3_0 - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

Summary

Electron may insecurely load Node modules

Details

Electron fails to restrict the path for loading Node modules, which may lead to execution of arbitrary JavaScript. Electron is a software framework for developing cross-platformm desktop applications with web technologies, such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript with Chromium and Node.js. Electron is used in applications such as Atom editor, Microsoft Visual Studio Code, etc.. Electron contains a flaw where the search path for loading Node modules is not restricted properly. This exists due to a flaw in the processing of the 'require' function. When this function is processed, all parent folders for the directory where the module exists is added to the search paths. If an attacker is able to place a malicious Node module in a resulting search path on the victim's system, this Node module will be loaded. Yosuke HASEGAWA of Secure Sky Technology Inc. reported this vulnerability to IPA. JPCERT/CC coordinated with the developer under Information Security Early Warning Partnership.

References

▼	Type	URL
	JVN	https://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN00324715/index.html
	CVE	https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-1202
	NVD	https://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2016-1202
	No Mapping(CWE-Other)	https://www.ipa.go.jp/en/security/vulnerabilities/cwe.html

Impacted products

▼	Vendor	Product
	Electron	Electron

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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

▼	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

Version: n/a

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