CVE-2020-4076: Trust Boundary Violation

July 7, 2020 (updated July 13, 2020)

In Electron, there is a context isolation bypass. 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-2020-4076
www.electronjs.org/releases/stable?page=3

Code Behaviors & Features

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