PT-2016-4640
CVE-2016-1202
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Published
2016-04-25
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Updated
2017-10-24
Description by
CVSS 3.1
7.8
HighMetricsAV: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.
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