Heap-based Buffer Overflow Affecting electron package, versions >=13.0.0 <14.2.4 >=15.0.0 <15.3.5


Severity

0.0
high
0
10

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.13% (49th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-JS-ELECTRON-2332175
  • published 26 Apr 2022
  • disclosed 11 Jan 2022
  • credit Abraruddin Khan and Omair

How to fix?

Upgrade electron to version 14.2.4, 15.3.5 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 Heap-based Buffer Overflow which allows staged updates to bigger versions of a texture to go through even if the texture was redefined via glTexStorage*.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Snyk

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

8.8 high