Arbitrary File Read Affecting electron package, versions >=17.0.0 <17.4.8 >=18.0.0 <18.3.5


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.23% (62nd percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-JS-ELECTRON-2928901
  • published 16 Jun 2022
  • disclosed 16 Jun 2022
  • credit Mark Brand

How to fix?

Upgrade electron to version 17.4.8, 18.3.5 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 Arbitrary File Read in compositing, due to improper deserialization of PaintImage pixel data.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Snyk

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

9.3 critical