CVE-2020-12079

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Summary

CVECVE-2020-12079
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2020-04-23 04:15:00 UTC
Updated2022-12-02 19:57:00 UTC
DescriptionBeaker before 0.8.9 allows a sandbox escape, enabling system access and code execution. This occurs because Electron context isolation is not used, and therefore an attacker can conduct a prototype-pollution attack against the Electron internal messaging API.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-1321

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Beakerbrowser Beaker All All All All
Application Beakerbrowser Beaker All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Critical security issue [solved in 0.8.9] · Issue #1519 · beakerbrowser/beaker · GitHub MISC github.com Third Party Advisory
Release Beaker 0.8.9 · beakerbrowser/beaker · GitHub MISC github.com Release Notes, Third Party Advisory
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NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
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