Out-of-Bounds Affecting electron package, versions >=22.0.0 <22.3.22 >=24.0.0 <24.8.1 >=25.0.0 <25.7.0


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.45% (76th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-JS-ELECTRON-5847428
  • published 16 Aug 2023
  • disclosed 15 Aug 2023
  • credit Unknown

How to fix?

Upgrade electron to version 22.3.22, 24.8.1, 25.7.0 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 Out-of-Bounds in V8 in Google Chrome prior to 116.0.5845.96 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Snyk

Recommended
8.6 high
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    None
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    Low
  • Integrity (I)
    Low
  • Availability (A)
    High
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NVD

8.8 high