PT-2016-4640 · Github · Atom Electron

Zcbenz · Published 2016-04-25 · Updated 2017-10-24 · CVE-2016-1202

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

7.8

High

Base vector

AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Atom Electron versions prior to 0.33.5

Description The issue 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, due to an untrusted search path vulnerability.

Recommendations For versions prior to 0.33.5, update to version 0.33.5 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

Untrusted Search Path

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-426

Related Identifiers

CVE-2016-1202

GHSA-GVCJ-PFQ2-WXJ7

Affected Products

Atom Electron

References · 9

• http://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN00324715/index.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-1202 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-1202 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-gvcj-pfq2-wxj7 · Vendor Advisory
• http://jvndb.jvn.jp/jvndb/JVNDB-2016-000054 · Vendor Advisory
• https://github.com/electron/electron · Note
• https://github.com/electron/electron/commit/9a2e2b365d061ec10cd861391fd5b1344af7194d · Note
• https://github.com/electron/electron/pull/2976 · Note
• https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-gvcj-pfq2-wxj7 · Note