Improper Input Validation Affecting electron package, versions <9.4.0 >=10.0.0 <10.1.7


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.13% (49th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-JS-ELECTRON-1049323
  • published 19 Nov 2020
  • disclosed 17 Nov 2020
  • credit Unknown

How to fix?

Upgrade electron to version 9.4.0, 10.1.7 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 Improper Input Validation. An insufficient data validation flaw was found in the WASM component of the Chromium browser.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Snyk

Recommended
8.8 high
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    None
  • User Interaction (UI)
    Required
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    High
  • Integrity (I)
    High
  • Availability (A)
    High
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NVD

8.8 high
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Red Hat

8.8 high