CVE-2025-55305
Electron is vulnerable to Code Injection via resource modification
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- 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.
Timeline
ID reserved
By GitHub_M
- 23 days later
· 23 days later
Published
- 1 day later
· 1 day later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| GitHub_MCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Medium6.1 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:L |
| NVDNVD · Deferred | 3.1 | Medium6.1 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:L |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.29% · top 79% of all CVEs (7 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.1.
Weakness
Affected products
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- npmelectronGHSA-vmqv-hx8q-j7mg (opens in a new tab)
References (9)
- https://github.com/electron/electron/security/advisories/GHSA-vmqv-hx8q-j7mg (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRM
- https://github.com/electron/electron/pull/48101 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISC
- https://github.com/electron/electron/pull/48102 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISC
- https://github.com/electron/electron/pull/48103 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISC
- https://github.com/electron/electron/pull/48104 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISC
- https://github.com/electron/electron/commit/23a02934510fcf951428e14573d9b2d2a3c4f28b (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISC
- https://github.com/electron/electron/commit/2e5a0b7220ebf955c6785cc5adb2e2b1cf77dac1 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISC
- https://github.com/electron/electron/commit/3f92511cdecc39f46b0e86cce40a0c691e301c9d (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISC
- https://github.com/electron/electron/commit/fdf29ce83870109d403f5c23ae529dbd0e8f4fee (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISC
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-vmqv-hx8q-j7mg (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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