Improper Validation Affecting electron package, versions >=10.0.0-beta.1 <10.1.6<9.4.4


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Mature
EPSS
0.37% (74th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JS-ELECTRON-1047306
  • published1 Dec 2020
  • disclosed27 Nov 2020
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 27 Nov 2020

CVE-2020-16013  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-354  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade electron to version 10.1.6, 9.4.4 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 Validation. The value of a node was accessed without prior HasValue check. With WebAssembly this node is not guaranteed to be a value.

CVSS Scores

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