[Security] Bump electron from 8.5.5 to 12.0.0

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Bumps electron from 8.5.5 to 12.0.0. This update includes a security fix.

Vulnerabilities fixed

Sourced from The GitHub Security Advisory Database.

IPC messages delivered to the wrong frame in Electron

Impact

IPC messages sent from the main process to a subframe in the renderer process, through webContents.sendToFrame, event.reply or when using the remote module, can in some cases be delivered to the wrong frame.

If your app does ANY of the following, then it is impacted by this issue:

• Uses remote
• Calls webContents.sendToFrame
• Calls event.reply in an IPC message handler

Patches

This has been fixed in the following versions:

• 9.4.0
• 10.2.0
• 11.1.0
• 12.0.0-beta.9

Workarounds

There are no workarounds for this issue.

For more information

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Affected versions: < 9.4.0

Release notes

Sourced from electron's releases.

electron v12.0.0

Release Notes for v12.0.0

Features

• Changed the default value of contextIsolation to true. #27949

Fixes

• Fixed a potential crash when resetting BrowserViews. #27947
• Fixed background color not being applied for child windows created by native window.open path. #27942 (Also in 10, 11)
• Fixed issue where window.open() would not return an object with a location.href setter when contextIsolation is enabled and nativeWindowOpen is disabled. #27940
• Fixed navigator.bluetooth.requestDevice. #27927 (Also in 11)
• Fixed race condition in electron.net implementation. #27938

Other Changes

• Reverted WebFrameMain.executeJavaScriptInIsolatedWorld(). #27937
• Updated Chromium to 89.0.4389.69. #27907

electron v12.0.0-beta.31

Note: This is a beta release. Please file new issues for any bugs you find in it.

This release is published to npm under the beta tag and can be installed via npm install electron@beta, or npm install electron@12.0.0-beta.31.

Release Notes for v12.0.0-beta.31

Other Changes

• Updated Node.js to v14.16.0. #27911

electron v12.0.0-beta.30

Note: This is a beta release. Please file new issues for any bugs you find in it.

This release is published to npm under the beta tag and can be installed via npm install electron@beta, or npm install electron@12.0.0-beta.30.

Release Notes for v12.0.0-beta.30

Fixes

• Backported fix for https://crbug.com/952922. #27598
• Fixed ECDH.setPrivateKey() not updating the key. #27856
• Fixed an issue where libuv might hang with multiple subframes when nodeIntegrationInSubframes is enabled. #27879 (Also in 10, 11)
• Fixed an out-of-bounds access in WebContents.sendInputEvent. #27855 (Also in 10, 11)

Other Changes

• Updated Chromium to 89.0.4389.58. #27759

electron v12.0.0-beta.29

Note: This is a beta release. Please file new issues for any bugs you find in it.

This release is published to npm under the beta tag and can be installed via npm install electron@beta, or npm install electron@12.0.0-beta.29.

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Commits

• 3ae63c9 Bump v12.0.0
• 8828382 feat: enable context isolation by default (#27949)
• 0e714d1 fix: ensure owner window valid (#27947)
• aec412e chore: bump chromium to 89.0.4389.69 (12-x-y) (#27907)
• 4b2d791 chore: revert webFrameMain.executeJavaScriptInIsolatedWorld method (#27926) (...
• fd629c1 fix: set WebContents background color ubiquitously #27592 (#27593) (#27942)
• 007c960 fix: values return from the ctx bridge with dynamic property support should t...
• b2636e1 ci: ignore errors deleting user app directories on WOA testing (#27939)
• e7e1801 fix: race-condition in electron.net (#27938)
• 0baf999 fix: navigator.bluetooth.requestDevice (#27927)
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Superseded by #260.