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High · 7.3 CVE-2024-27303 EUVD-2024-0997GHSA-r4pf-3v7r-hh55

electron-builder's NSIS installer - execute arbitrary code on the target machine (Windows only)

Published Mar 6, 2024 · Updated Aug 13, 2024 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

electron-builder is a solution to package and build a ready for distribution Electron, Proton Native app for macOS, Windows and Linux. A vulnerability that only affects eletron-builder prior to 24.13.2 in Windows, the NSIS installer makes a system call to open cmd.exe via NSExec in the `.nsh` installer script. NSExec by default searches the current directory of where the installer is located before searching `PATH`. This means that if an attacker can place a malicious executable file named cmd.exe in the same folder as the installer, the installer will run the malicious file. Version 24.13.2 fixes this issue. No known workaround exists. The code executes at the installer-level before the app is present on the system, so there's no way to check if it exists in a current installer.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
electron-userland electron-builder < 24.13.2 —

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
openSUSE Tumbleweed teleport 15.1.6-1.1 openSUSE-SU-2024:13782-1

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
npm app-builder-lib < 24.13.2 24.13.2 GHSA-r4pf-3v7r-hh55

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