Out Of Bounds Read Affecting electron package, versions <10.4.4>=11.0.0 <11.4.4>=12.0.0 <12.0.6


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.53% (78th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JS-ELECTRON-1278596
  • published2 May 2021
  • disclosed2 May 2021
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 2 May 2021

CVE-2021-21233  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-126  (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 Out Of Bounds Read. Blit11 would clip the destination rectangle with the destination size but ignore the result. gl::ClipRectangle returns false when the rectangles do not intersect at all, indicating the blit can be skipped.

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