NPM: electron-updater: Uncontrolled search path elements within `AppImage` built by `app-builder-lib`

NPM: electron-updater: Uncontrolled search path elements within AppImage built by app-builder-lib vulnerability discovered by ? in WordPress Npm app-builder-lib versions 26.15.0...

@depup/electron-builder (26.8.1-depup.0), @lynx-js/lynxtron-builder (>=0.0.1-alpha.0, <=0.0.19-alpha.1) +8 more potentially affected by CVE-2026-54672 via app-builder-lib (>=26.0.0-alpha.0, <=26.14.0)

app-builder-lib NPM version =26.0.0-alpha.0, =0.0.1-alpha.0, =26.8.2-beta.0, =26.0.0-alpha.0, =26.0.0-alpha.0, =26.0.0-alpha.0, =26.0.0-alpha.0, =26.0.0-alpha.0, =26.0.0-alpha.0, =26.0.0-alpha.0, =26.14.0 Source cves: CVE-2026-54672 Source advisory: OSV:GHSA-7G7R-GX96-252G...

@depup/electron-builder (26.8.1-depup.0), @lynx-js/lynxtron-builder (>=0.0.1-alpha.0, <=0.0.19-alpha.1) +8 more potentially affected by CVE-2026-54672 via app-builder-lib (>=26.0.0-alpha.0, <=26.14.0)

app-builder-lib NPM version =26.0.0-alpha.0, =0.0.1-alpha.0, =26.8.2-beta.0, =26.0.0-alpha.0, =26.0.0-alpha.0, =26.0.0-alpha.0, =26.0.0-alpha.0, =26.0.0-alpha.0, =26.0.0-alpha.0, =26.0.0-alpha.0, =26.14.0 Source cves: CVE-2026-54672 Source advisory: SNYK:JS-APPBUILDERLIB-17744441...

Uncontrolled Search Path Element

Overview app-builder-lib is an electron-builder lib Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Uncontrolled Search Path Element through the execWine/executeAppBuilder command path in builder-util and app-builder-lib on non-Windows systems. An attacker can execute attacker-controlled...

CVE-2026-54672: Uncontrolled Search Path Element

electron-updater allows for automatic updates for Electron apps. Prior to 26.15.0, AppImage targets built by app-builder-lib could use an empty path component when setting the LDLIBRARYPATH environment variable at runtime. This causes the current working directory to be added to the dynamic linke...

Privilege Escalation

app-builder-lib is vulnerable to Privilege escalation. The vulnerability is due to NSExec searching the current directory of the installer before searching the system's PATH when making a system call to open cmd.exe in the .nsh installer script. This flaw allows an attacker to exploit the situati...

@attq/blackboox (>=0.4.0, <=0.5.5), @overwolf/ow-electron-builder (>=24.7.0-beta.0, <=24.7.0) +11 more potentially affected by CVE-2024-27303 via app-builder-lib (>=24.0.0-alpha.1, <=24.13.1)

app-builder-lib NPM version =24.0.0-alpha.1, =0.4.0, =24.7.0-beta.0, =1.0.0-canary.0, =24.6.3, =24.0.0-alpha.1, =24.0.0-alpha.1, =24.0.0-alpha.1, =1.0.0, =24.0.0-alpha.1, =24.0.0-alpha.1, =24.0.0-alpha.1, =24.0.0-alpha.1, =24.13.1 Source cves: CVE-2024-27303 Source advisory: OSV:GHSA-R4PF-3V7R-HH...