Description
Beaker before 0.8.9 allows a sandbox escape, enabling system access and code execution. This occurs because Electron context isolation is not used, and therefore an attacker can conduct a prototype-pollution attack against the Electron internal messaging API.
Published: 2020-04-23
Score: 10.0 Critical
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Remediation

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Advisories
Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2020-4395 Beaker before 0.8.9 allows a sandbox escape, enabling system access and code execution. This occurs because Electron context isolation is not used, and therefore an attacker can conduct a prototype-pollution attack against the Electron internal messaging API.
History

Fri, 11 Jul 2025 13:45:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics epss

{'score': 0.01192}

epss

{'score': 0.00597}


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Beakerbrowser Beaker
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-04T11:48:58.043Z

Reserved: 2020-04-23T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2020-12079

cve-icon Vulnrichment

No data.

cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2020-04-23T04:15:13.343

Modified: 2024-11-21T04:59:14.060

Link: CVE-2020-12079

cve-icon Redhat

No data.

cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses