VDB-157688 · CVE-2020-4076 · GCVE-0-2020-4076

Electron up to 7.2.3/8.2.3/9.0.0-beta20 Isolation trust boundary violation

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Electron up to 7.2.3/8.2.3/9.0.0-beta20. It has been declared as critical. This vulnerability affects unknown code of the component Isolation Handler. Such manipulation leads to trust boundary violation. This vulnerability is listed as CVE-2020-4076. The attack must be carried out locally. There is no available exploit. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

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 VDB-157689 and VDB-157687 for similar entries. VulDB is the best source for vulnerability data and more expert information about this specific topic.

Productinfo

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Electron

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Website

Product: https://github.com/electron/electron/

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VulDB Meta Base Score: 6.7
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 6.3

VulDB Base Score: 5.6
VulDB Temp Score: 4.9
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Exploitinginfo

Class: Trust boundary violation
CWE: CWE-501
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Physical: Partially
Local: Yes
Remote: No

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Status: Not defined

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Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: Upgrade
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Upgrade: Electron 7.2.4/8.2.4/9.0.0-beta21

Timelineinfo

12/30/2019 🔍
07/07/2020 +190 days 🔍
07/07/2020 +0 days 🔍
10/28/2020 +113 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Product: github.com

Advisory: github.com
Status: Not defined
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CVE: CVE-2020-4076 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2020-4076
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-157688
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Entryinfo

Created: 07/07/2020 09:50
Updated: 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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Cache ID: 216::103

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