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


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.21% (60th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JS-ELECTRON-2978483
  • published10 Aug 2022
  • disclosed10 Aug 2022
  • creditYU-CHANG CHEN, CHIH-YEN CHANG

Introduced: 10 Aug 2022

CVE-2022-2624  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-120  (opens 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()

CVSS Scores

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