Critical
Security advisory
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.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2021-28119
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 11:44 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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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