QID 982972

QID 982972: Nodejs (npm) Security Update for electron (GHSA-hvf8-h2qh-37m9)

Security update has been released for electron to fix the vulnerability.

Note: The preceding description block is extracted directly from the security advisory. Using automation, we have attempted to clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

IPC messages sent from the main process to a subframe in the renderer process, through `webContents.sendToFrame`, `event.reply` or when using the `remote` module, can in some cases be delivered to the wrong frame.

If your app does ANY of the following, then it is impacted by this issue:
- Uses `remote`
- Calls `webContents.sendToFrame`
- Calls `event.reply` in an IPC message handler

CVSS V3 rated as High - 6.5 severity.

CVSS V2 rated as High - 6.4 severity.

Solution

This has been fixed in the following versions:

- 9.4.0
- 10.2.0
- 11.1.0
- 12.0.0-beta.9Workaround:
There are no workarounds for this issue.

Vendor References

GHSA-hvf8-h2qh-37m9 - github.com/advisories/GHSA-hvf8-h2qh-37m9

CVEs related to QID 982972

CVE-2020-26272 |

Software Advisories

Advisory ID	Software	Component	Link
GHSA-hvf8-h2qh-37m9	electron		github.com/advisories/GHSA-hvf8-h2qh-37m9

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