Electron up to 7.2.3/8.2.3/9.0.0-beta20 Isolation trust boundary violation
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A vulnerability was found in Electron up to 7.2.3/8.2.3/9.0.0-beta20. It has been rated as critical. Affected by this issue is some unknown processing of the component Isolation Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a trust boundary violation vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-501. The product mixes trusted and untrusted data in the same data structure or structured message. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:
In Electron before versions 7.2.4, 8.2.4, and 9.0.0-beta21, there is a context isolation bypass. Code running in the main world context in the renderer can reach into the isolated Electron context and perform privileged actions. Apps using contextIsolation are affected. This is fixed in versions 9.0.0-beta.21, 8.2.4 and 7.2.4.
The weakness was presented 07/07/2020 (GitHub Repository). The advisory is shared for download at github.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2020-4076 since 12/30/2019. The exploitation is known to be difficult. The attack needs to be approached locally. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available.
Upgrading to version 7.2.4, 8.2.4 or 9.0.0-beta21 eliminates this vulnerability.
See 157689 and 157687 for similar entries.
Product
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Version
CPE 2.3
CPE 2.2
CVSSv4
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CVSSv3
VulDB Meta Base Score: 6.7VulDB Meta Temp Score: 6.3
VulDB Base Score: 5.6
VulDB Temp Score: 4.9
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NVD Base Score: 7.8
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CVSSv2
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Exploiting
Class: Trust boundary violationCWE: CWE-501
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Local: Yes
Remote: No
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Status: Not defined
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Countermeasures
Recommended: UpgradeStatus: 🔍
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Upgrade: Electron 7.2.4/8.2.4/9.0.0-beta21
Timeline
12/30/2019 🔍07/07/2020 🔍
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10/28/2020 🔍
Sources
Advisory: github.comStatus: Not defined
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CVE: CVE-2020-4076 (🔍)
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Entry
Created: 07/07/2020 09:50Updated: 10/28/2020 22:04
Changes: 07/07/2020 09:50 (39), 07/07/2020 09:55 (11), 10/28/2020 21:55 (1), 10/28/2020 22:04 (1)
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