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Unpreventable top-level navigation

High
MarshallOfSound published GHSA-2q4g-w47c-4674 Oct 5, 2020

Package

npm electron (npm)

Affected versions

>=10.0.0-beta.0 <=10.0.0 || >=9.0.0-beta.0 <=9.2.1 || >=8.0.0-beta.0 <=8.5.0 <= 8

Patched versions

11.0.0-beta.1, 10.0.1, 9.3.0, 8.5.1

Description

Impact

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.

Patches

  • 11.0.0-beta.1
  • 10.0.1
  • 9.3.0
  • 8.5.1

Workarounds

Sandbox all your iframes using the sandbox attribute. This will prevent them creating top-frame navigations and is good practice anyway.

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Severity

High

CVE ID

CVE-2020-15174

Weaknesses

No CWEs

Credits