Out-of-Bounds Affecting electron package, versions <22.3.23>=23.0.0 <24.8.2>=25.0.0 <25.8.0


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Proof of concept
EPSS
0.67% (81st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JS-ELECTRON-5880432
  • published28 Aug 2023
  • disclosed23 Aug 2023
  • creditSergei Glazunov

Introduced: 23 Aug 2023

CVE-2023-4427  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade electron to version 22.3.23, 24.8.2, 25.8.0 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 when the V8 engine processes a carefully crafted HTML page. An attacker can perform an out of bounds memory read, thereby potentially gaining unauthorized access to sensitive information.

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