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


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.11% (46th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JS-ELECTRON-1050427
  • published16 Dec 2020
  • disclosed11 Dec 2020
  • creditAndré Bargull

Introduced: 11 Dec 2020

CVE-2020-16042  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens 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.

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