Heap-based Buffer Overflow Affecting electron package, versions <10.4.4>=11.0.0 <11.4.4>=12.0.0 <12.0.6


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.33% (72nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JS-ELECTRON-1277203
  • published28 Apr 2021
  • disclosed28 Apr 2021
  • creditGuang Gong

Introduced: 28 Apr 2021

CVE-2021-21222  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-122  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade electron to version 10.4.4, 11.4.4, 12.0.6 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 via V8.

CVSS Scores

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