Improper Input Validation Affecting electron package, versions <10.4.4 >=12.0.0 <12.0.6


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    1.56% (88th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-JS-ELECTRON-1277526
  • published 2 May 2021
  • disclosed 29 Apr 2021
  • credit Sergei Glazunov

How to fix?

Upgrade electron to version 10.4.4, 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 Improper Input Validation due to insufficient data validation that exists in V8.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Snyk

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

8.8 high