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CVE-2016-1202

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2016-04-25 · updated 2026-06-17

Description

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.

Affected products

• Atom Electron: through 0.33.4

References

• http://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN00324715/index.html
• http://jvndb.jvn.jp/jvndb/JVNDB-2016-000054
• https://github.com/electron/electron/commit/9a2e2b365d061ec10cd861391fd5b1344af7194d
• https://github.com/electron/electron/pull/2976
• http://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN00324715/index.html
• http://jvndb.jvn.jp/jvndb/JVNDB-2016-000054
• https://github.com/electron/electron/commit/9a2e2b365d061ec10cd861391fd5b1344af7194d
• https://github.com/electron/electron/pull/2976

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