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


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Mature
EPSS
1.62% (88th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JS-ELECTRON-1727344
  • published1 Oct 2021
  • disclosed1 Oct 2021
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 1 Oct 2021

CVE-2021-37973  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-20  (opens in a new tab)

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

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