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
Threat Intelligence
Exploit Maturity
Mature
EPSS
3.19% (92nd
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-JS-ELECTRON-1021884
- published 21 Oct 2020
- disclosed 21 Oct 2020
- credit Sergei Glazunov of Google Project Zero
Introduced: 21 Oct 2020
CVE-2020-15999 Open this link in a new tabHow 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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