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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2021-28119

Twinkle Tray (aka twinkle-tray) through 1.13.3 allows remote command execution. A remote attacker may send a crafted IPC message to the exposed vulnerable ipcRenderer IPC interface, which invokes the dangerous openExternal API.

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31 Oct 2026, 11:44 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

CVE-2021-28119

core-osv · Original source

Published 9 Mar 2021, 23:15 UTC

Twinkle Tray (aka twinkle-tray) through 1.13.3 allows remote command execution. A remote attacker may send a crafted IPC message to the exposed vulnerable ipcRenderer IPC interface, which invokes the dangerous openExternal API.

osv:CVE-2021-28119
Complete source record
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  "method": "structured",
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      "modified": "2026-10-20T10:54:37.605779151Z",
      "provider": "osv",
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  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 385779,
  "published_at": "2021-03-09T23:15:11.987+00:00"
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