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


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    1.27% (87th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-JS-ELECTRON-1085998
  • published 16 Mar 2021
  • disclosed 16 Mar 2021
  • credit Xu Lin, Panagiotis Ilia, Jason Polakis

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.

References

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