CVE-2020-26272
medium
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
5.5
Description
IPC messages delivered to the wrong frame in Electron
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
30%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
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OS impact
Arch Fixed 1 release
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| — | Fixed | 11.1.0-1 |
References
- https://github.com/electron/electron/security/advisories/GHSA-hvf8-h2qh-37m9
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-26272
- https://github.com/electron/electron/pull/26875
- https://github.com/electron/electron/commit/07a1c2a3e5845901f7e2eda9506695be58edc73c
- https://github.com/electron/electron/commit/0bbd268eb4caf35604443df5ff196980dd49e208
- https://github.com/electron/electron/commit/36c695ce2a7e22c07fe1e30c61c00d20371daee2
- https://github.com/electron/electron/commit/429400040ecb16a21d19936658579e65a797e4cc
- https://github.com/electron/electron/commit/5c8e7e8b7f485ceafa8b271086d7b87e1de9dedd
- https://github.com/electron/electron/releases/tag/v9.4.0
- https://www.electronjs.org/releases/stable?version=9#9.4.0
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.