Improper Control of a Resource Through its Lifetime Affecting electron package, versions <13.6.8 >=14.0.0 <14.2.4 >=15.0.0 <15.3.6


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.13% (49th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-JS-ELECTRON-2332176
  • published 6 Feb 2022
  • disclosed 11 Jan 2022
  • credit Aki Helin

How to fix?

Upgrade electron to version 13.6.8, 14.2.4, 15.3.6 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 Control of a Resource Through its Lifetime in the FramebufferAttachment::mRenderToTextureSamples method in Angle. It was never updated if the renderbuffer storage was changed after attaching to framebuffer.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Snyk

Recommended
5.6 medium
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    High
  • 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