Out-of-bound Write Affecting electron package, versions >=12.0.0 <12.2.3 >=13.0.0 <13.6.2 >=14.0.0 <14.2.1


Severity

0.0
high
0
10

    Threat Intelligence

    Exploit Maturity
    Mature
    EPSS
    1.82% (88th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-JS-ELECTRON-1932540
  • published 1 Dec 2021
  • disclosed 29 Nov 2021
  • credit Unknown

How to fix?

Upgrade electron to version 12.2.3, 13.6.2, 14.2.1 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 Out-of-bound Write via inappropriate implementation in V8 which allows a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption through a crafted HTML page.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Snyk

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