Information Exposure Affecting electron package, versions <9.4.0 >=10.0.0 <10.2.0 >=11.0.0 <11.1.0 >=12.0.0-beta.1 <12.0.0-beta.9


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.1% (43rd percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-JS-ELECTRON-1065981
  • published 29 Jan 2021
  • disclosed 28 Jan 2021
  • credit Unknown

How to fix?

Upgrade electron to version 9.4.0, 10.2.0, 11.1.0, 12.0.0-beta.9 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. IPC messages sent from the main process to a subframe in the renderer process, through webContents.sendToFrame, event.reply or when using the remote module, can in some cases be delivered to the wrong frame.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Snyk

Recommended
5.3 medium
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    None
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    Low
  • Integrity (I)
    None
  • Availability (A)
    None
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NVD

6.5 medium