Vulnerability CVE-2016-1202
Published: 2016-04-25

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.

CVSS2 => (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
7.2/10
10/10
3.9/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Local
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Complete
Complete
Complete
Affected software
ATOM -> Electron 

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