Denial of Service (DoS) Affecting electron package, versions >=22.0.0 <22.3.13>=23.0.0 <23.3.7>=24.0.0 <24.5.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Mature
EPSS
13.86% (96th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JS-ELECTRON-5672160
  • published6 Jun 2023
  • disclosed6 Jun 2023
  • creditClément Lecigne

Introduced: 6 Jun 2023

CVE-2023-3079  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade electron to version 22.3.13, 23.3.7, 24.5.1 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 Denial of Service (DoS) due to type confusion in V8. The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page.

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