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>=15.0.0 <15.3.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.22% (61st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JS-ELECTRON-1932551
  • published1 Dec 2021
  • disclosed29 Nov 2021
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 29 Nov 2021

CVE-2021-37981  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-787  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade electron to version 12.2.3, 13.6.1, 14.2.1, 15.3.1 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 a heap buffer-overflow in Skia in Chromium, which allows a remote attacker who has compromised the renderer process to potentially perform a sandbox escape via a crafted HTML page.

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