CVE-2016-1202

high

Description

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

https://github.com/electron/electron/pull/2976

https://github.com/electron/electron/commit/9a2e2b365d061ec10cd861391fd5b1344af7194d

http://jvndb.jvn.jp/jvndb/JVNDB-2016-000054

http://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN00324715/index.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2016-04-25

Updated: 2026-06-17

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.2

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H