Vulnerabilities > CVE-2016-1202 - Remote Code Execution vulnerability in Atom Electron 0.33.4

047910
CVSS 7.2 - HIGH
Attack vector
LOCAL
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
COMPLETE
Integrity impact
COMPLETE
Availability impact
COMPLETE
local
low complexity
atom

Summary

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. <a href="http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/426.html">CWE-426: Untrusted Search Path</a>

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
Application
Atom
1