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SCA: security update for electron (GHSA-h9jc-284h-533g)

critical Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 415619

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - In Electron before versions 7.2.4, 8.2.4, and 9.0.0-beta21, 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 both `contextIsolation` and `contextBridge` are affected. This is fixed in
 versions 9.0.0-beta.21, 8.2.4 and 7.2.4. (CVE-2020-4077)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-h9jc-284h-533g

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 415619

Version: Revision 1.5

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 1/23/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5

Percentile: 95.11

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-4077

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.9

Temporal Score: 8.6

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/7/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/7/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-4077

cwe: CWE-501