Improper Restriction of Rendered UI Layers or Frames Affecting electron package, versions >=8.0.0-beta.0 <8.5.1>=9.0.0-beta.0 <9.3.0>=10.0.0-beta.0 <10.0.1>=11.0.0-beta.0 <11.0.0-beta.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Mature
EPSS
0.14% (51st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JS-ELECTRON-1016273
  • published7 Oct 2020
  • disclosed6 Oct 2020
  • creditMasato Kinugawa

Introduced: 6 Oct 2020

CVE-2020-15174  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-1021  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade electron to version 8.5.1, 9.3.0, 10.0.1, 11.0.0-beta.1 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 Restriction of Rendered UI Layers or Frames. The will-navigate event that apps use to prevent navigations to unexpected destinations can be bypassed when a sub-frame performs a top-frame navigation across sites.

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