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SCA: security update for electron (GHSA-m93v-9qjc-3g79)

critical Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 416859

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 contextIsolation are affected. This is fixed in versions 9.0.0-beta.21,
 8.2.4 and 7.2.4. (CVE-2020-4076)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-m93v-9qjc-3g79

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 416859

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: 4.8

Percentile: 56.9

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.6

Temporal Score: 2.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-4076

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9

Temporal Score: 7.8

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

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-2020-4076

cwe: CWE-501