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

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.53% (78th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-JS-ELECTRON-1278596
  • published 2 May 2021
  • disclosed 2 May 2021
  • credit Unknown

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.

References

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Snyk

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

8.8 high