Out-of-bounds Write Affecting electron package, versions <10.4.1>=11.0.0 <11.4.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Mature
EPSS
2.09% (89th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JS-ELECTRON-1088600
  • published25 Mar 2021
  • disclosed24 Mar 2021
  • creditAlison Huffman

Introduced: 24 Mar 2021

CVE-2021-21166  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-787  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade electron to version 10.4.1, 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 Write via a data race in the audio component. A remote attacker could potentially exploit heap corruption using a crafted HTML page.

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