<p>Upgrade <code>electron</code> to version 18.3.8, 19.0.13 or higher.</p>

Buffer Overflow Affecting electron package, versions <18.3.8 >=19.0.0 <19.0.13

Snyk CVSS

Attack Complexity High

Threat Intelligence

EPSS 0.21% (59^th percentile)

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Snyk ID SNYK-JS-ELECTRON-2978483
published 10 Aug 2022
disclosed 10 Aug 2022
credit YU-CHANG CHEN, CHIH-YEN CHANG

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Introduced: 10 Aug 2022

CVE-2022-2624 Open this link in a new tab CWE-119 Open this link in a new tab CWE-120 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Upgrade electron to version 18.3.8, 19.0.13 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 Buffer Overflow when changing the PDF layout confuses AddFindResult() and causes it to fail a DCHECK()