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Improper Restriction of Rendered UI Layers or Frames Affecting electron package, versions >=8.0.0-beta.0 <8.5.1 >=9.0.0-beta.0 <9.3.0 >=10.0.0-beta.0 <10.0.1 >=11.0.0-beta.0 <11.0.0-beta.1

0.0
medium

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity Low

    Threat Intelligence

    Exploit Maturity Mature
    EPSS 0.14% (49th percentile)
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NVD
7.5 high

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-JS-ELECTRON-1016273
  • published 7 Oct 2020
  • disclosed 6 Oct 2020
  • credit Masato Kinugawa
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Introduced: 6 Oct 2020

CVE-2020-15174 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-1021 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Upgrade electron to version 8.5.1, 9.3.0, 10.0.1, 11.0.0-beta.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 Improper Restriction of Rendered UI Layers or Frames. The will-navigate event that apps use to prevent navigations to unexpected destinations can be bypassed when a sub-frame performs a top-frame navigation across sites.

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