Information Exposure Affecting electron package, versions <14.2.8 >=15.0.0 <15.4.2 >=16.0.0 <16.2.0


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.18% (56th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-JS-ELECTRON-2422385
  • published 6 Apr 2022
  • disclosed 14 Mar 2022
  • credit ppontes, Paril

How to fix?

Upgrade electron to version 14.2.8, 15.4.2, 16.2.0 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 Information Exposure where ImageBitmaps that is created by webGL contexts will fail to render.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Snyk

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

6.5 medium