Out-of-bounds Write Affecting electron package, versions <10.4.1 >=11.0.0 <11.4.1
Threat Intelligence
Exploit Maturity
Mature
EPSS
3.8% (93rd
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-JS-ELECTRON-1088600
- published 25 Mar 2021
- disclosed 24 Mar 2021
- credit Alison Huffman
Introduced: 24 Mar 2021
CVE-2021-21166 Open this link in a new tabHow 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.
CVSS Scores
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