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Medium · 6.1 CVE-2025-55305 EUVD-2025-26873GHSA-vmqv-hx8q-j7mg

Electron is vulnerable to Code Injection via resource modification

Published Sep 4, 2025 · Updated Sep 5, 2025 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

Electron is a framework for writing cross-platform desktop applications using JavaScript, HTML and CSS. In versions below 35.7.5, 36.0.0-alpha.1 through 36.8.0, 37.0.0-alpha.1 through 37.3.1 and 38.0.0-alpha.1 through 38.0.0-beta.6, ASAR Integrity Bypass via resource modification. This only impacts apps that have the embeddedAsarIntegrityValidation and onlyLoadAppFromAsar fuses enabled. Apps without these fuses enabled are not impacted. This issue is fixed in versions 35.7.5, 36.8.1, 37.3.1 and 38.0.0-beta.6.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
electron electron < 35.7.5, >= 36.0.0-alpha.1, < 36.8.1, >= 37.0.0-alpha.1, < 37.3.1, >= 38.0.0-alpha.1, < 38.0.0-beta.6 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
npm electron < 35.7.5 35.7.5 GHSA-vmqv-hx8q-j7mg
npm electron >= 36.0.0-alpha.1, < 36.8.1 36.8.1 GHSA-vmqv-hx8q-j7mg
npm electron >= 37.0.0-alpha.1, < 37.3.1 37.3.1 GHSA-vmqv-hx8q-j7mg
npm electron >= 38.0.0-alpha.1, < 38.0.0-beta.6 38.0.0-beta.6 GHSA-vmqv-hx8q-j7mg

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