Buffer Overflow Affecting electron package, versions >=6.0.0 <6.1.12 >=7.0.0 <7.3.0 >=8.0.0 <8.3.0
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
2.16% (90th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-JS-ELECTRON-569122
- published 15 May 2020
- disclosed 5 May 2020
- credit Natalie Silvanovich of Google Project Zero
Introduced: 5 May 2020
CVE-2020-6831 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade electron to version 6.1.12, 7.3.0, 8.3.0 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 in SCTP.
CVSS Scores
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