CVE-2025-55305: Electron

Medium severity, CVSS 6.1. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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 Electron: before 35.7.5 (fixed in 35.7.5); from 36.0.0-alpha.1, before 36.8.1 (fixed in 36.8.1); from 37.0.0-alpha.1, before 37.3.1 (fixed in 37.3.1); from 38.0.0-alpha.1, before 38.0.0-beta.6 (fixed in 38.0.0-beta.6)

Published 2025-09-04. Last modified 2026-06-17.