Out-of-bounds Write Affecting electron package, versions >=12.0.0 <12.2.3 >=13.0.0 <13.6.1 >=14.0.0 <14.2.1
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.25% (66th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-JS-ELECTRON-1932549
- published 1 Dec 2021
- disclosed 29 Nov 2021
- credit Unknown
Introduced: 29 Nov 2021
CVE-2021-37984 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade electron to version 12.2.3, 13.6.1, 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-bounds Write via heap buffer overflow in PDFium in Chromium which allows a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page.
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