CVE-2020-15096: Trust Boundary Violation

July 7, 2020 (updated July 10, 2020)

In Electron, there is a context isolation bypass, meaning that 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.

References

nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-15096
www.electronjs.org/releases/stable?page=3

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