Heap-based Buffer Overflow Affecting electron package, versions <8.5.3>=9.0.0-beta.1 <9.3.3>=10.0.0-beta.1 <10.1.5


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Mature
EPSS
3.19% (92nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JS-ELECTRON-1021884
  • published21 Oct 2020
  • disclosed21 Oct 2020
  • creditSergei Glazunov of Google Project Zero

Introduced: 21 Oct 2020

CVE-2020-15999  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade electron to version 8.5.3, 9.3.3, 10.1.5 or higher.

Overview

electron is a framework which lets you write cross-platform desktop applications using JavaScript, HTML and CSS.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Heap-based Buffer Overflow in Freetype.

CVSS Scores

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