Homepage
About Snyk

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

0.0
medium

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity Low

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS 0.1% (42nd percentile)
Expand this section
NVD
6.5 medium

Do your applications use this vulnerable package?

In a few clicks we can analyze your entire application and see what components are vulnerable in your application, and suggest you quick fixes.

Test your applications
  • Snyk ID SNYK-JS-ELECTRON-1065981
  • published 29 Jan 2021
  • disclosed 28 Jan 2021
  • credit Unknown
Report a new vulnerability Found a mistake?

Introduced: 28 Jan 2021

CVE-2020-26272 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-200 Open this link 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.