Integer Overflow or Wraparound Affecting electron package, versions >=22.0.0 <22.3.7>=23.0.0 <23.3.0>=24.0.0 <24.1.3


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Mature
EPSS
0.88% (84th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JS-ELECTRON-5462056
  • published24 Apr 2023
  • disclosed24 Apr 2023
  • creditClément Lecigne

Introduced: 24 Apr 2023

CVE-2023-2136  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-190  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade electron to version 22.3.7, 23.3.0, 24.1.3 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 Integer Overflow or Wraparound in Skia, which allows a remote attacker who had compromised the renderer process to potentially perform a sandbox escape via a crafted HTML page.

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