PT-2025-36635 · Npm · Electron

Published 2025-09-03 · Updated 2025-09-03

OSV

CVSS v3.1

6.1

Medium

Base vector

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

Impact

This only impacts apps that have the embeddedAsarIntegrityValidation and onlyLoadAppFromAsar fuses enabled. Apps without these fuses enabled are not impacted.

Specifically this issue can only be exploited if your app is launched from a filesystem the attacker has write access too. i.e. the ability to edit files inside the resources folder in your app installation on Windows which these fuses are supposed to protect against.

Workarounds

There are no app side workarounds, you must update to a patched version of Electron.

Fixed Versions

• 38.0.0-beta.6
• 37.3.1
• 36.8.1
• 35.7.5

For more information

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Fix

Code Injection

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-829

CWE-94

Related Identifiers

GHSA-VMQV-HX8Q-J7MG

Affected Products

Electron

References · 12

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-55305 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-vmqv-hx8q-j7mg · Vendor Advisory
• https://github.com/electron/electron · Note
• https://github.com/electron/electron/pull/48104 · Note
• https://github.com/electron/electron/security/advisories/GHSA-vmqv-hx8q-j7mg · Note
• https://github.com/electron/electron/commit/fdf29ce83870109d403f5c23ae529dbd0e8f4fee · Note
• https://github.com/electron/electron/commit/23a02934510fcf951428e14573d9b2d2a3c4f28b · Note
• https://github.com/electron/electron/pull/48103 · Note
• https://github.com/electron/electron/pull/48101 · Note
• https://github.com/electron/electron/pull/48102 · Note
• https://github.com/electron/electron/commit/3f92511cdecc39f46b0e86cce40a0c691e301c9d · Note
• https://github.com/electron/electron/commit/2e5a0b7220ebf955c6785cc5adb2e2b1cf77dac1 · Note