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CVE-2020-4076

22
FAUCET Score

CVE-2020-4076 is a critical context isolation bypass vulnerability affecting Electron versions prior to 7.2.4, 8.2.4, and 9.0.0-beta21. This flaw allows code in the renderer's main world to access the isolated Electron context, enabling privileged actions and impacting applications utilizing contextIsolation. With a CVSS score of 9.0 (CRITICAL), the vulnerability has a local attack vector with low complexity, potentially leading to high confidentiality and integrity impacts. Despite its severity, there is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 7.0.0, < 7.2.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:electronjs:electron:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 8.0.0, < 8.2.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:electronjs:electron:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
9.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:electronjs:electron:9.0.0:-:*:*:*:*:*:*
9.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:electronjs:electron:9.0.0:beta1:*:*:*:*:*:*
9.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:electronjs:electron:9.0.0:beta10:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

7.8HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
1.4
Impact Score
5.8
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.37%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
29.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0037 is in the 81st percentile among its peer group of 79 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.7 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 1.0 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (2)

npmpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: electronFixed in: 8.2.4
npmpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: electronFixed in: 7.2.4

Vendor Advisories (1)

npmGHSA-m93v-9qjc-3g79high

Context isolation bypass via leaked cross-context objects in Electron

Jul 7, 2020

References

github.com / electron/electron/security/advisories/GHSA-m93v-9qjc-3g79
Third Party Advisory
electronjs.org / releases/stable
Release NotesVendor Advisory