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

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.97% (77th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JS-ELECTRON-1065981
  • published29 Jan 2021
  • disclosed28 Jan 2021
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 28 Jan 2021

CVE-2020-26272  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

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 Base Scores

version 3.1