Heap-based Buffer Overflow Affecting electron package, versions >=22.0.0 <22.3.6>=23.0.0 <23.2.3


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.7% (81st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JS-ELECTRON-5418305
  • published9 Apr 2023
  • disclosed9 Apr 2023
  • creditWeipeng Jiang

Introduced: 9 Apr 2023

CVE-2023-1810  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-122  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade electron to version 22.3.6, 23.2.3 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 Heap-based Buffer Overflow. in Visuals in Google Chrome prior which allowes a remote attacker who had compromised the renderer process to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page.

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