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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD7.5 High

CVE-2020-15174

Unpreventable top-level navigation in Electron

Description

In Electron before versions 11.0.0-beta.1, 10.0.1, 9.3.0 or 8.5.1 the `will-navigate` event that apps use to prevent navigations to unexpected destinations as per our security recommendations can be bypassed when a sub-frame performs a top-frame navigation across sites. The issue is patched in versions 11.0.0-beta.1, 10.0.1, 9.3.0 or 8.5.1 As a workaround sandbox all your iframes using the sandbox attribute. This will prevent them creating top-frame navigations and is good practice anyway.

Affected products

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

electron electron

  • >= 8.0.0-beta.0, < 8.5.1affected
  • >= 9.0.0-beta.0, < 9.3.0affected
  • >= 10.0.0-beta.0, < 10.0.1affected

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