Information Exposure Affecting electron package, versions <9.4.1 >=10.0.0 <10.3.2
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.11% (46th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-JS-ELECTRON-1050427
- published 16 Dec 2020
- disclosed 11 Dec 2020
- 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.
CVSS Scores
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