Medium 6.1Published Sep 4, 2025

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

Updated under an hour ago (Oct 28, 2026, 12:00 AM ET)

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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.

CVSS: 6.1 MEDIUM (v3.1, CNA)CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:L
Weakness (CWE): CWE-94, CWE-829
Known exploited: Not in CISA's KEV catalog
EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days): Not loaded for this CVE
Assigned by: GitHub_M
NVD analysis: Deferred
Record last updated: Sep 5, 2025
First seen by InfoSec Signals: Oct 19, 2026

Affected products

Affected products

electron electron electron:electron (from the name)	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	CNA record

References

References

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

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