Privilege Escalation Affecting electron package, versions <6.1.11 >=7.0.0 <7.2.4 >=8.0.0 <8.2.4
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
Scope
Changed
Integrity
High
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.05% (22nd
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-JS-ELECTRON-575396
- published 7 Jul 2020
- disclosed 7 Jul 2020
- credit Unknown
Introduced: 7 Jul 2020
CVE-2020-15096 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade electron to version 6.1.11, 7.2.4, 8.2.4 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 Privilege Escalation. This is a context isolation bypass, meaning that code running in the main world context in the renderer can reach into the isolated Electron context and perform privileged actions.
##Note:
Only apps using contextIsolation are affected.