Information Exposure Affecting electron package, versions >=11.0.0-beta.1 <11.4.0<10.4.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.27% (87th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JS-ELECTRON-1085998
  • published16 Mar 2021
  • disclosed16 Mar 2021
  • creditXu Lin, Panagiotis Ilia, Jason Polakis

Introduced: 16 Mar 2021

CVE-2021-21181  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade electron to version 11.4.0, 10.4.1 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. The is a side-channel information leakage in autofill.

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