CVE-2021-39184

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Published 2021-10-12 · Modified 2026-03-13

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CVSS v3

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CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

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Description

Electron's sandboxed renderers can obtain thumbnails of arbitrary files through the nativeImage API

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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Package impact

Ecosystem	Package	Vulnerable	Fixed
npm	electron	`<11.5.0`	`11.5.0`
npm	electron	`>=12.0.0,<12.1.0`	`12.1.0`
npm	electron	`>=13.0.0,<13.3.0`	`13.3.0`

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.