Improper Input Validation Affecting electron package, versions >=13.0.0 <13.5.1 <12.2.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    Exploit Maturity
    Mature
    EPSS
    1.62% (88th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-JS-ELECTRON-1727344
  • published 1 Oct 2021
  • disclosed 1 Oct 2021
  • credit Unknown

How to fix?

Upgrade electron to version 13.5.1, 12.2.1 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 Improper Input Validation. It is possible to kill a renderer if it provides an unexpected FrameOwnerElementType.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Snyk

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

9.6 critical