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Information Exposure Affecting electron package, versions <9.4.1 >=10.0.0 <10.3.2

0.0
medium

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity High
    Confidentiality High

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS 0.11% (44th percentile)
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NVD
6.5 medium
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Red Hat
6.5 medium
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SUSE
8.8 high

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-JS-ELECTRON-1050427
  • published 16 Dec 2020
  • disclosed 11 Dec 2020
  • credit André Bargull
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Introduced: 11 Dec 2020

CVE-2020-16042 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-200 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Upgrade electron to version 9.4.1, 10.3.2 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 Information Exposure. When a BigInt is right-shifted the backing store is not properly cleared, allowing uninitialized memory to be read.