CVE-2016-1202 (GCVE-0-2016-1202)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2016-04-25 18:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 22:48
VLAI
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.
Severity
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
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http://jvndb.jvn.jp/jvndb/JVNDB-2016-000054 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_JVNDB
https://github.com/electron/electron/pull/2976 x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN00324715/index.html third-party-advisoryx_refsource_JVN
Date Public
2016-04-22 00:00
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