Information Exposure Affecting electron package, versions >=10.1.0 <11.5.0>=12.0.0-beta.1 <12.1.0>=13.0.0-beta.2 <13.3.0>=14.0.0-beta.1 <14.0.0>=15.0.0-alpha.1 <15.0.0-alpha.10


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.15% (53rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JS-ELECTRON-1730574
  • published13 Oct 2021
  • disclosed13 Oct 2021
  • creditJeremy Rose

Introduced: 13 Oct 2021

CVE-2021-39184  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-668  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade electron to version 11.5.0, 12.1.0, 13.3.0, 14.0.0, 15.0.0-alpha.10 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. A sandboxed renderer can request a "thumbnail" image of an arbitrary file on the user's system. Note: This can be partially fixed by enabling contextIsolation.

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