Out-of-Bounds Affecting electron package, versions <10.4.2>=11.0.0 <11.4.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.29% (87th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JS-ELECTRON-1086693
  • published25 Mar 2021
  • disclosed18 Mar 2021
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 18 Mar 2021

CVE-2021-21169  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade electron to version 10.4.2, 11.4.1 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 Out-of-Bounds. Out of bounds memory access in V8 in Google Chrome prior to 89.0.4389.72 allowed a remote attacker to potentially perform out of bounds memory access via a crafted HTML page. This vulnerability relates to an electron component.

CVSS Scores

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