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CVE-2025-55305: Electron is vulnerable to Code Injection via resource modification

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.1 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2025-09-04 · updated 2026-10-19
• Weakness: CWE-94

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

• electron: before 35.7.5; from 36.0.0-alpha.1, < 36.8.1; from 37.0.0-alpha.1, < 37.3.1; from 38.0.0-alpha.1, < 38.0.0-beta.6

References

• https://github.com/electron/electron/commit/23a02934510fcf951428e14573d9b2d2a3c4f28b
• https://github.com/electron/electron/commit/2e5a0b7220ebf955c6785cc5adb2e2b1cf77dac1
• https://github.com/electron/electron/commit/3f92511cdecc39f46b0e86cce40a0c691e301c9d
• https://github.com/electron/electron/commit/fdf29ce83870109d403f5c23ae529dbd0e8f4fee
• https://github.com/electron/electron/pull/48101
• https://github.com/electron/electron/pull/48102
• https://github.com/electron/electron/pull/48103
• https://github.com/electron/electron/pull/48104
• https://github.com/electron/electron/security/advisories/GHSA-vmqv-hx8q-j7mg

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