Information Exposure Affecting electron Open this link in a new tab package, versions <9.4.1 >=10.0.0 <10.3.2
Attack Complexity
High
Confidentiality
High
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snyk-id
SNYK-JS-ELECTRON-1050427
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published
16 Dec 2020
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disclosed
11 Dec 2020
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credit
André Bargull
Introduced: 11 Dec 2020
CVE-2020-16042 Open this link in a new tabHow 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.