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

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    Exploit Maturity
    Mature
    EPSS
    0.14% (51st percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-JS-ELECTRON-1016273
  • published 7 Oct 2020
  • disclosed 6 Oct 2020
  • credit Masato Kinugawa

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.

References

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Snyk

Recommended
5.3 medium
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    None
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    None
  • Integrity (I)
    Low
  • Availability (A)
    None
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NVD

7.5 high