Improper Access Control Affecting electron package, versions >=8.0.0-beta.0 <8.5.2 >=9.0.0-beta.0 <9.3.1 >=10.0.0-beta.0 <10.1.2 >=11.0.0-beta.0 <11.0.0-beta.6
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.09% (41st
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-JS-ELECTRON-1016271
- published 7 Oct 2020
- disclosed 6 Oct 2020
- credit Jeremy Rose, Samuel Attard
Introduced: 6 Oct 2020
CVE-2020-15215 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade electron to version 8.5.2, 9.3.1, 10.1.2, 11.0.0-beta.6 or higher.
Overview
electron is a framework which lets you write cross-platform desktop applications using JavaScript, HTML and CSS.
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Access Control. Apps using both contextIsolation and sandbox: true or nativeWindowOpen: true are affected. Code running in the main world context in the renderer can reach into the isolated Electron context and perform privileged actions.
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